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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: vmbus_requestor data structure for VMBus hardening
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:10:48 -0700
"Andres Beltran" <lkmlabelt@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> The first patch creates the definitions for the data structure, provides
> helper methods to generate new IDs and retrieve data, and
> allocates/frees the memory needed for vmbus_requestor.
>
> The second and third patches make use of vmbus_requestor to send request
> IDs to Hyper-V in storvsc and netvsc respectively.
>
> Thanks.
> Andres Beltran
>
> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>
> Andres Beltran (3):
> Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add vmbus_requestor data structure for VMBus
> hardening
> scsi: storvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for
> VMBus hardening
> hv_netvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for VMBus
> hardening
>
> drivers/hv/channel.c | 175 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h | 13 +++
> drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 79 +++++++++++---
> drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c | 1 +
> drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 85 +++++++++++++--
> include/linux/hyperv.h | 22 ++++
> 6 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>


What is the performance impact of this?
It means keeping a global (bookkeeping) structure which should have
noticeable impact on mult-queue performance.

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