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From: Rich Lane <rich.lane@bigswitch.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,  Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>,
	Dyasly Sergey <s.dyasly@samsung.com>,
	 Heetae Ahn <heetae82.ahn@samsung.com>,
	Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>,
	 Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: fix segfault on bad descriptor address.
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 08:54:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGSMBPMVQK610UgAs4GgWK_ykhdNzPb-sS=2AnLL0BtcWv-UcQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160713084732.GH26521@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com>

On Wednesday, July 13, 2016, Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:34:07AM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> > This scenario fixed somehow, I agree. But this patch still needed to
> protect
> > vhost from untrusted VM, from malicious or buggy virtio application.
> > Maybe we could change the commit-message and resend this patch as a
> > security enhancement? What do you think?
>
> Indeed, but I'm a bit concerned about the performance regression found
> by Rich, yet I am not quite sure why it happens, though Rich claimed
> that it seems to be a problem related to compiler.


The workaround I suggested solves the performance regression. But even if
it hadn't, this is a security fix that should be merged regardless of the
performance impact.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-13 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-20 12:50 Ilya Maximets
2016-05-23 10:57 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-05-23 11:04   ` Ilya Maximets
2016-05-30 11:05     ` Ilya Maximets
2016-05-30 14:25       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-05-31  9:12         ` Ilya Maximets
2016-05-30 12:00 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-30 12:24   ` Ilya Maximets
2016-05-31  6:53     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-31  9:10       ` Ilya Maximets
2016-05-31 22:06 ` Rich Lane
2016-06-02 10:46   ` Ilya Maximets
2016-06-02 16:22     ` Rich Lane
2016-06-03  6:01       ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-01  7:35 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-06 11:19   ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-06 12:24     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-08 11:48       ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-10 13:17         ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-11  8:38           ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-11  9:50             ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-11 11:05               ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-11 11:47                 ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-12  2:43                   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-12  5:53                     ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-13  7:34                       ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-13  8:47                         ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-13 15:54                           ` Rich Lane [this message]
2016-07-14  1:42                             ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-14  4:38                               ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-14  8:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ilya Maximets
2016-07-15  6:17   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-15  7:23     ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-15  8:40       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-15 11:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] " Ilya Maximets
2016-07-15 11:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] vhost: fix using of bad return value on mergeable enqueue Ilya Maximets
2016-07-15 11:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] vhost: do sanity check for ring descriptor address Ilya Maximets
2016-07-15 12:14   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] vhost: fix segfault on bad " Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-15 19:37     ` Thomas Monjalon

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