From: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 9, 2020 2:07 AM > > From: Andres Beltran <lkmlabelt@xxxxxxxxx> > > Pointers to ring-buffer packets sent by Hyper-V are used within the > guest VM. Hyper-V can send packets with erroneous values or modify > packet fields after they are processed by the guest. To defend > against these scenarios, return a copy of the incoming VMBus packet > after validating its length and offset fields in hv_pkt_iter_first(). > In this way, the packet can no longer be modified by the host. > [snip] > @@ -419,17 +446,52 @@ static u32 hv_pkt_iter_avail(const struct hv_ring_buffer_info *rbi) > struct vmpacket_descriptor *hv_pkt_iter_first(struct vmbus_channel *channel) > { > struct hv_ring_buffer_info *rbi = &channel->inbound; > - struct vmpacket_descriptor *desc; > + struct vmpacket_descriptor *desc, *desc_copy; > + u32 bytes_avail, pkt_len, pkt_offset; > > - hv_debug_delay_test(channel, MESSAGE_DELAY); > - if (hv_pkt_iter_avail(rbi) < sizeof(struct vmpacket_descriptor)) > + desc = hv_pkt_iter_first_raw(channel); > + if (!desc) > return NULL; > > - desc = hv_get_ring_buffer(rbi) + rbi->priv_read_index; > - if (desc) > - prefetch((char *)desc + (desc->len8 << 3)); > + bytes_avail = hv_pkt_iter_avail(rbi); > + > + /* > + * Ensure the compiler does not use references to incoming Hyper-V values (which > + * could change at any moment) when reading local variables later in the code > + */ > + pkt_len = READ_ONCE(desc->len8) << 3; > + pkt_offset = READ_ONCE(desc->offset8) << 3; > + > + /* > + * If pkt_len is invalid, set it to the smaller of hv_pkt_iter_avail() and > + * rbi->pkt_buffer_size > + */ > + if (rbi->pkt_buffer_size < bytes_avail) > + bytes_avail = rbi->pkt_buffer_size; I think the above could be combined with the earlier call to hv_pkt_iter_avail(), and more logically expressed as: bytes_avail = min(rbi->pkt_buffer_size, hv_pkt_iter_avail(rbi)); This is a minor nit. Everything else in this patch looks good to me. Michael > + > + if (pkt_len < sizeof(struct vmpacket_descriptor) || pkt_len > bytes_avail) > + pkt_len = bytes_avail; > + > + /* > + * If pkt_offset is invalid, arbitrarily set it to > + * the size of vmpacket_descriptor > + */ > + if (pkt_offset < sizeof(struct vmpacket_descriptor) || pkt_offset > pkt_len) > + pkt_offset = sizeof(struct vmpacket_descriptor); > + > + /* Copy the Hyper-V packet out of the ring buffer */ > + desc_copy = (struct vmpacket_descriptor *)rbi->pkt_buffer; > + memcpy(desc_copy, desc, pkt_len); > + > + /* > + * Hyper-V could still change len8 and offset8 after the earlier read. > + * Ensure that desc_copy has legal values for len8 and offset8 that > + * are consistent with the copy we just made > + */ > + desc_copy->len8 = pkt_len >> 3; > + desc_copy->offset8 = pkt_offset >> 3; > > - return desc; > + return desc_copy; > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hv_pkt_iter_first); >