Subject: Re: [PULL] vhost: cleanups and fixes

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 08:44:16 -0500

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 04:06:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 4:00 PM Kees Cook <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > +       memset(&rsp, 0, sizeof(rsp));
> > +       rsp.response = VIRTIO_SCSI_S_FUNCTION_REJECTED;
> > +       resp = vq->iov[out].iov_base;
> > +       ret = __copy_to_user(resp, &rsp, sizeof(rsp));
> >
> > Is it actually safe to trust that iov_base has passed an earlier
> > access_ok() check here? Why not just use copy_to_user() instead?
> 
> Good point.
> 
> We really should have removed those double-underscore things ages ago.
> 
> Also, apart from the address, what about the size? Wouldn't it be
> better to use copy_to_iter() rather than implement it badly by hand?
> 
>                Linus

Bijan can you respond please?
Are you going to look into this and convert code to copy_to_iter?
I don't think we should release Linux like this, so if you don't
have the time I'd rather revert for now and you can look
into reposting for the next release.

Thanks,

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MST