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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 06/45] msix: Prevent bogus mask updates on
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 06/45] msix: Prevent bogus mask updates on MMIO accesses |
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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:50:43 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 02:07:10PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-10-17 13:57, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:23:46PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> On 2011-10-17 13:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:27:40AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>>> Only accesses to the MSI-X table must trigger a call to
> >>>> msix_handle_mask_update or a notifier invocation.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
> >>>
> >>> Why would msix_mmio_write be called on an access
> >>> outside the table?
> >>
> >> Because it handles both the table and the PBA.
> >
> > Hmm. Interesting. Is there a bug in how we handle PBA
> > updates then? If yes I'd like a separate patch for that
> > to apply to the stable tree.
>
> I first thought it was a serious bug, but it just triggers if the guest
> write to PBA (which is very uncommon) and that actually triggers any
> spurious out-of-bounds vector injection. Highly unlikely.
Yes guests don't really use PBA ATM. But is there something
bad a malicious guest can do? For example, what if
msix_clr_pending gets invoked with this huge vector value?
It does seem serious ...
> >
> > BTW, this code will go away if PBA can get stored separately?
>
> Hmm - yeah, true. Likely it's moot to discuss this change then.
>
> Jan
>
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[Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 13/45] hpet: Use msi_deliver, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/17
[Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 06/45] msix: Prevent bogus mask updates on MMIO accesses, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 06/45] msix: Prevent bogus mask updates on MMIO accesses, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 06/45] msix: Prevent bogus mask updates on MMIO accesses, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 06/45] msix: Prevent bogus mask updates on MMIO accesses, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 06/45] msix: Prevent bogus mask updates on MMIO accesses, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 06/45] msix: Prevent bogus mask updates on MMIO accesses,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 06/45] msix: Prevent bogus mask updates on MMIO accesses, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 06/45] msix: Prevent bogus mask updates on MMIO accesses, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2011/10/17
[Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 09/45] msi: Factor out msi_message_from_vector, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/17
[Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 26/45] qemu-kvm: Use g_realloc for irq_routes extension, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/17
[Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 17/45] qemu-kvm: Track MSIRoutingCache in KVM routing table, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/17
[Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 04/45] msi: Invoke msi/msix_reset from PCI core, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/17
[Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 25/45] qemu-kvm: Update MSI cache on kvm_msi_irqfd_set, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/17