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SubjectRe: [PATCH 05/16] iommu/amd: Split device table initialization into irq and dma part
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:17:53AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 02:23:55PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > When the IOMMU is enabled very early (as with irq-remapping)
> > some devices are still in BIOS hand. When dma is blocked
> > early this can cause lots of IO_PAGE_FAULTs. So delay the
> > DMA initialization and do it right before the dma_ops are
> > initialized.
> > To be secure, block all interrupts by default when irq-remapping is
>
> What are you trying to be secure against?

Against attacks of faked MSI msgs that could DoS the system. MSI
messages are only specific DMA transactions in the end and a guest with
a device assigned has control over its DMA engine and can thus send
arbitrary interrupt requests to the host. There is a whole paper about
such attacks. I can't find right now, but I send you a link when I find
it.


Joerg

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