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commit b94e4b147fd1992ad450e1fea1fdaa3738753373 upstream. Today blkfront will trust the backend to send only sane response data. In order to avoid privilege escalations or crashes in case of malicious backends verify the data to be within expected limits. Especially make sure that the response always references an outstanding request. Introduce a new state of the ring BLKIF_STATE_ERROR which will be switched to in case an inconsistency is being detected. Recovering from this state is possible only via removing and adding the virtual device again (e.g. via a suspend/resume cycle). Make all warning messages issued due to valid error responses rate limited in order to avoid message floods being triggered by a malicious backend. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730103854.12681-4-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.