Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] scsi: storvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for VMBus hardening

From: Wei Liu
Date: Wed Jul 01 2020 - 12:53:48 EST


On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 08:12:20PM -0400, Andres Beltran wrote:
> Currently, pointers to guest memory are passed to Hyper-V as
> transaction IDs in storvsc. In the face of errors or malicious
> behavior in Hyper-V, storvsc should not expose or trust the transaction
> IDs returned by Hyper-V to be valid guest memory addresses. Instead,
> use small integers generated by vmbus_requestor as requests
> (transaction) IDs.
>
> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

James and Martin, FYI I'm going to take this patch via hyperv tree
because it depends on the first patch.

Wei.