From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, hjk@hansjkoch.de, gregkh@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] uio: new driver to support PCI MSI-X
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 17:07:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151006170037-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5613BB7D.3060202@scylladb.com>
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 03:15:57PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> btw, (2) doesn't really add any insecurity. The user could already poke at
> the msix tables (as well as perform DMA); they just couldn't get a useful
> interrupt out of them.
Poking at msix tables won't cause memory corruption unless msix and bus
mastering is enabled. It's true root can enable msix and bus mastering
through sysfs - but that's easy to block or detect. Even if you don't
buy a security story, it seems less likely to trigger as a result
of a userspace bug.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-06 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-30 22:28 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] uio_msi: device driver Stephen Hemminger
2015-09-30 22:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] uio: add support for ioctls Stephen Hemminger
2015-09-30 22:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] uio: new driver to support PCI MSI-X Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-01 8:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 10:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 16:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 14:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-01 15:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 16:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 17:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-01 18:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-05 21:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-05 22:09 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2015-10-05 22:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 7:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-06 12:15 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-06 14:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2015-10-06 15:41 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-16 17:11 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-16 17:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-06 13:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 8:23 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 13:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 14:49 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 15:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 16:40 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-01 23:40 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-02 0:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-02 1:21 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-02 0:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-02 2:33 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-01 8:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] uio_msi: device driver Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 10:59 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 14:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-01 19:48 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-01 22:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-01 23:03 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-01 23:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-01 23:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-02 0:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-02 1:39 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-04 16:49 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-04 19:03 ` Greg KH
2015-10-04 20:49 ` Vlad Zolotarov
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