(2012/08/09 18:03), Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Tue) 24 Jul 2012 [11:37:18], Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote:
>> From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com>
>>
>> Add a failback memcpy path for unstealable pipe buffer.
>> If buf->ops->steal() fails, virtio-serial tries to
>> copy the page contents to an allocated page, instead
>> of just failing splice().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com>
>> Cc: Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
>> ---
>>
>> drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>> 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
>> index fe31b2f..911cb3e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
>> @@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ static int pipe_to_sg(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
>> struct pipe_buffer *buf,
>> struct splice_desc *sd)
>> {
>> struct sg_list *sgl = sd->u.data;
>> - unsigned int len = 0;
>> + unsigned int offset, len;
>>
>> if (sgl->n == MAX_SPLICE_PAGES)
>> return 0;
>> @@ -807,9 +807,31 @@ static int pipe_to_sg(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
>> struct pipe_buffer *buf,
>>
>> len = min(buf->len, sd->len);
>> sg_set_page(&(sgl->sg[sgl->n]), buf->page, len, buf->offset);
>> - sgl->n++;
>> - sgl->len += len;
>> + } else {
>> + /* Failback to copying a page */
>> + struct page *page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
>
> I prefer zeroing out the page. If there's not enough data to be
> filled in the page, the remaining data can be leaked to the host.
Yeah, it is really easy to fix that.
But out of curiosity, would that be really a problem?
I guess that host can access any guest page if need. If that
is right, is that really insecure to leak randomly allocated
unused page to the host?
Thank you,
--
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com
