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Message-ID: <20160512001231.GB27943@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 20:12:32 -0400
From: "ira.weiny" <ira.weiny@...el.com>
To: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@...eya.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Red Hat Security Response Team <secalert@...hat.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <benh@...ian.org>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Linux: IB/security: Restrict use of the write() interface'

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 09:48:59PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> As a workaround, I would suggest that systems which do not require
> (userspace) RDMA/Infiniband to blacklist/remove the following modules:
> 
>   rdma_ucm
>   ib_uverbs
>   ib_ucm
>   ib_umad

NOTE: AFAICT ib_umad is not vulnerable as it uses correct write/read semantics.
However, if you are disabling the other modules you probably have no use for
ib_umad either.

Ira

> 
> For example, adds the following in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
> 
>   blacklist rdma_ucm
>   blacklist ib_uverbs
>   blacklist ib_ucm
>   blacklist ib_umad
> 
> Those building their own kernel might want to disable, if not already,
> 
>   CONFIG_INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS, 
>   CONFIG_INFINIBAND_USER_MAD,
>   CONFIG_INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS
> 
> (Unfortunately the last one will also disable those features:
>   iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER)
>   iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) target support
>   RDS over Infiniband and iWARP
>   9P RDMA Transport (Experimental)
>   RPC-over-RDMA transport
>     (which actually disable NFSoRDMA))
> 
> Regards.
> 
> -- 
> Yann Droneaud
> OPTEYA
> 
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