Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Dec 2020 09:59:31 +0100 | From | Andrea Parri <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 40/66] hv_netvsc: Validate number of allocated sub-channels |
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 02:47:56AM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote: > From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 6:22 PM > > > > From: "Andrea Parri (Microsoft)" <parri.andrea@gmail.com> > > > > [ Upstream commit 206ad34d52a2f1205c84d08c12fc116aad0eb407 ] > > > > Lack of validation could lead to out-of-bound reads and information > > leaks (cf. usage of nvdev->chan_table[]). Check that the number of > > allocated sub-channels fits into the expected range. > > > > Suggested-by: Saruhan Karademir <skarade@microsoft.com> > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com> > > Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> > > Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> > > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> > > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> > > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org > > Link: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hyperv/20201118153310.112404-1-parri.andrea@gmail.com/ > > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> > > --- > > drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c | 5 +++++ > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > > > Sasha -- This patch is one of an ongoing group of patches where a Linux > guest running on Hyper-V will start assuming that hypervisor behavior might > be malicious, and guards against such behavior. Because this is a new > assumption, these patches are more properly treated as new functionality > rather than as bug fixes. So I would propose that we *not* bring such patches > back to stable branches.
Thank you, Michael. Just to confirm, I agree with Michael's assessment above and I join his proposal to *not* backport such patches to stable.
Thanks, Andrea
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