> > > I know you have determined experimentally that Hyper-V sends > > > unsolicited packets with the above length, so the idea is to validate > > > that the guest actually gets packets at least that big. But I wonder if > > > we should think about this slightly differently. > > > > > > The goal is for the storvsc driver to protect itself against bad or > > > malicious messages from Hyper-V. For the unsolicited messages, the > > > only field that this storvsc driver needs to access is the > > > vstor_packet->operation field. > > > > Eh, this is one piece of information I was looking for... ;-) > > I'm just looking at the code in storvsc_on_receive(). storvsc_on_receive() > itself looks at the "operation" field, but for the REMOVE_DEVICE and > ENUMERATE_BUS operations, you can see that the rest of the vstor_packet > is ignored and is not passed to any called functions. > > > > > > > >So an alternate approach is to set > > > the minimum length as small as possible while ensuring that field is valid. > > > > The fact is, I'm not sure how to do it for unsolicited messages. > > Current code ensures/checks != COMPLETE_IO. Your comment above > > and code audit suggest that we should add a check != FCHBA_DATA. > > I saw ENUMERATE_BUS messages, code only using their "operation". > > I'm not completely sure about FCHBA_DATA. That message does not > seem to be unsolicited, as the guest sends out a message of that type in > storvsc_channel_init() using storvsc_execute_vstor_op(). So any received > messages of that type are presumably in response to the guest request, > and will get handled via the test for rqst_id == VMBUS_RQST_INIT. Long > Li could probably confirm. So if Hyper-V did send a FCHBA_DATA > packet with rqst_id of 0, it would seem to be appropriate to reject > it. > > > > > And, again, this is only based on current code/observations... > > > > So, maybe you mean something like this (on top of this patch)? > > Yes, with a comment to explain what's going on. :-) My (current) best guess is here: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211006132026.4089-1-parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx Thanks, Andrea