"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 10:25:20AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 4:24 AM Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:25:26 +0800 >> > Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > > I think the fixes are: >> > > >> > > 1) fixing the vhost vsock >> > > 2) use suppress_used_validation=true to let vsock driver to validate >> > > the in buffer length >> > > 3) probably a new feature so the driver can only enable the validation >> > > when the feature is enabled. >> > >> > I'm not sure, I would consider a F_DEV_Y_FIXED_BUG_X a perfectly good >> > feature. Frankly the set of such bugs is device implementation >> > specific and it makes little sense to specify a feature bit >> > that says the device implementation claims to adhere to some >> > aspect of the specification. Also what would be the semantic >> > of not negotiating F_DEV_Y_FIXED_BUG_X? >> >> Yes, I agree. Rethink of the feature bit, it seems unnecessary, >> especially considering the driver should not care about the used >> length for tx. >> >> > >> > On the other hand I see no other way to keep the validation >> > permanently enabled for fixed implementations, and get around the problem >> > with broken implementations. So we could have something like >> > VHOST_USED_LEN_STRICT. >> >> It's more about a choice of the driver's knowledge. For vsock TX it >> should be fine. If we introduce a parameter and disable it by default, >> it won't be very useful. >> >> > >> > Maybe, we can also think of 'warn and don't alter behavior' instead of >> > 'warn' and alter behavior. Or maybe even not having such checks on in >> > production, but only when testing. >> >> I think there's an agreement that virtio drivers need more hardening, >> that's why a lot of patches were merged. Especially considering the >> new requirements came from confidential computing, smart NIC and >> VDUSE. For virtio drivers, enabling the validation may help to >> >> 1) protect the driver from the buggy and malicious device >> 2) uncover the bugs of the devices (as vsock did, and probably rpmsg) >> 3) force the have a smart driver that can do the validation itself >> then we can finally remove the validation in the core >> >> So I'd like to keep it enabled. >> >> Thanks > > Let's see how far we can get. But yes, maybe we were too aggressive in > breaking things by default, a warning might be a better choice for a > couple of cycles. This series appears to break the virtio_balloon driver as well. The symptom is soft lockup warnings, eg: INFO: task kworker/1:1:109 blocked for more than 614 seconds. Not tainted 5.16.0-rc2-gcc-10.3.0 #21 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:kworker/1:1 state:D stack:12496 pid: 109 ppid: 2 flags:0x00000800 Workqueue: events_freezable update_balloon_size_func Call Trace: [c000000003cef7c0] [c000000003cef820] 0xc000000003cef820 (unreliable) [c000000003cef9b0] [c00000000001e238] __switch_to+0x1e8/0x2f0 [c000000003cefa10] [c000000000f0a00c] __schedule+0x2cc/0xb50 [c000000003cefae0] [c000000000f0a8fc] schedule+0x6c/0x140 [c000000003cefb10] [c00000000095b6c4] tell_host+0xe4/0x130 [c000000003cefba0] [c00000000095d234] update_balloon_size_func+0x394/0x3f0 [c000000003cefc70] [c000000000178064] process_one_work+0x2c4/0x5b0 [c000000003cefd10] [c0000000001783f8] worker_thread+0xa8/0x640 [c000000003cefda0] [c000000000185444] kthread+0x1b4/0x1c0 [c000000003cefe10] [c00000000000cee4] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 Similar backtrace reported here by Luis: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YY2duTi0wAyAKUTJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Bisect points to: # first bad commit: [939779f5152d161b34f612af29e7dc1ac4472fcf] virtio_ring: validate used buffer length Adding suppress used validation to the virtio balloon driver "fixes" it, eg. diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c index c22ff0117b46..a14b82ceebb2 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c @@ -1150,6 +1150,7 @@ static unsigned int features[] = { }; static struct virtio_driver virtio_balloon_driver = { + .suppress_used_validation = true, .feature_table = features, .feature_table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(features), .driver.name = KBUILD_MODNAME, cheers _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization