[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: fix segfault on bad descriptor address.
Ilya Maximets
i.maximets at samsung.com
Thu Jul 14 06:38:40 CEST 2016
On 14.07.2016 04:42, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 08:54:08AM -0700, Rich Lane wrote:
>> On Wednesday, July 13, 2016, Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at 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.
>
> Good point. Ilya, would you reword the commit log and resend based on
> latest code?
OK.
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