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Commit cdba0356 authored by Andres Beltran's avatar Andres Beltran Committed by Sasha Levin
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hv_netvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for VMBus hardening


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Currently, pointers to guest memory are passed to Hyper-V as
transaction IDs in netvsc. In the face of errors or malicious
behavior in Hyper-V, netvsc 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.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndres Beltran <lkmlabelt@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarAndrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109100402.8946-4-parri.andrea@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarWei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: 9cae43da ("hv_netvsc: Register VF in netvsc_probe if NET_DEVICE_REGISTER missed")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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