[Libguestfs] [nbdkit PATCH] nbd: Opt in to libnbd pread_initialize speedup
Laszlo Ersek
lersek at redhat.com
Fri Feb 11 06:14:30 UTC 2022
On 02/10/22 16:38, Eric Blake wrote:
> Our nbd plugin has always properly checked for asynch errors (and thus
> has never been at risk of a vulnerability similar to CVE-2022-0485
> just fixed in nbdcopy). What's more, the nbdkit core guarantees
> (since commit b1ce255e in 2019, v1.13.1) that the buffer handed to a
> .pread callback has been pre-sanitized to not leak heap contents,
> regardless of how buggy a plugin might be (see
> server/protocol.c:protocol_recv_request_send_reply(), which uses
> server/threadlocal.c:threadlocal_buffer() for a safe buffer). Thus,
> we do not need libnbd to spend time re-initializing the buffer, if
> libnbd is new enough to give us that knob.
> ---
>
> I know that Laszlo was sceptical whether any real client might want to
> use the libnbd knob [1], but I'm actually comfortable with this one.
>
> [1] https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2022-February/msg00144.html
>
> plugins/nbd/nbd.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/plugins/nbd/nbd.c b/plugins/nbd/nbd.c
> index ae595ea7..2e154e8d 100644
> --- a/plugins/nbd/nbd.c
> +++ b/plugins/nbd/nbd.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> /* nbdkit
> - * Copyright (C) 2017-2020, 2022 Red Hat Inc.
> + * Copyright (C) 2017-2022 Red Hat Inc.
> *
> * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
> @@ -637,6 +637,15 @@ nbdplug_open_handle (int readonly, const char *client_export)
> #if LIBNBD_HAVE_NBD_SET_FULL_INFO
> if (nbd_set_full_info (h->nbd, 1) == -1)
> goto errnbd;
> +#endif
> +#if LIBNBD_HAVE_NBD_SET_PREAD_INITIALIZE
> + /* nbdkit guarantees that the buffers passed to our .pread callback
> + * are pre-initialized; and we in turn ensure that the buffer is not
> + * dereferenced if the NBD server replied with an error. Thus, we
> + * are safe opting in to this libnbd speedup.
> + */
> + if (nbd_set_pread_initialize (h->nbd, false) == -1)
> + goto errnbd;
> #endif
> if (dynamic_export && uri) {
> #if LIBNBD_HAVE_NBD_SET_OPT_MODE
>
hahaha, this was real quick ;)
Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
Laszlo
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