Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/6] virtio/console: Add a failback for unstealable pipe buffer
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.
Amit
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/6] virtio/console: Add a failback for unstealable pipe buffer
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:33:12PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
@@ -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.
get_zeroed_page()?
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/6] virtio/console: Add a failback for unstealable pipe buffer
(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
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/6] virtio/console: Add a failback for unstealable pipe buffer
On (Thu) 09 Aug 2012 [18:24:58], Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
(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?
I'm not sure if there is a way to really attack, but just something I
had thought about: the host kernel can access any guest page, that's
not something we can prevent.
However, if qemu is restricted from accessing guest pages, and the
guest shares this page with qemu for r/w purposes via the virtio
channel, a qemu exploit can expose guest data to host userspace.
I agree this is completely theoretical; can someone else with more
insight confirm or deny my apprehensions?
Amit
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/6] virtio/console: Add a failback for unstealable pipe buffer
On 08/09/2012 12:55 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
On (Thu) 09 Aug 2012 [18:24:58], Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
(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?
I'm not sure if there is a way to really attack, but just something I
had thought about: the host kernel can access any guest page, that's
not something we can prevent.
However, if qemu is restricted from accessing guest pages, and the
guest shares this page with qemu for r/w purposes via the virtio
channel, a qemu exploit can expose guest data to host userspace.
I agree this is completely theoretical; can someone else with more
insight confirm or deny my apprehensions?
qemu can read and write any guest page (for the guest it controls).
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/6] virtio/console: Add a failback for unstealable pipe buffer
On (Thu) 09 Aug 2012 [12:58:13], Avi Kivity wrote:
On 08/09/2012 12:55 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
On (Thu) 09 Aug 2012 [18:24:58], Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
(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?
I'm not sure if there is a way to really attack, but just something I
had thought about: the host kernel can access any guest page, that's
not something we can prevent.
However, if qemu is restricted from accessing guest pages, and the
guest shares this page with qemu for r/w purposes via the virtio
channel, a qemu exploit can expose guest data to host userspace.
I agree this is completely theoretical; can someone else with more
insight confirm or deny my apprehensions?
qemu can read and write any guest page (for the guest it controls).
OK, thanks for confirming -- no need to change this patch, then.
Amit
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/6] virtio/console: Add a failback for unstealable pipe buffer
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 18:24 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: 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? Yeah, it's like protecting userspace pages from the kernel ;-) -- Steve
