Re: [PATCH v9 1/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add vmbus_requestor data structure for VMBus hardening

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On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 11:04:00AM +0100, Andrea Parri (Microsoft) wrote:
> From: Andres Beltran <lkmlabelt@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, VMbus drivers use pointers into guest memory as request IDs
> for interactions with Hyper-V. To be more robust in the face of errors
> or malicious behavior from a compromised Hyper-V, avoid exposing
> guest memory addresses to Hyper-V. Also avoid Hyper-V giving back a
> bad request ID that is then treated as the address of a guest data
> structure with no validation. Instead, encapsulate these memory
> addresses and provide small integers as request IDs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andres Beltran <lkmlabelt@xxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>



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