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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 11/15] pci: Add pci_iomap_shared{,_range}
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On 8/23/2021 6:04 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 5:31 PM Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
> <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 8/23/21 4:56 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>> Add a new variant of pci_iomap for mapping all PCI resources
>>>> of a devices as shared memory with a hypervisor in a confidential
>>>> guest.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen<ak@linux.intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
>>> I'm a bit puzzled by this part. So why should the guest*not* map
>>> pci memory as shared? And if the answer is never (as it seems to be)
>>> then why not just make regular pci_iomap DTRT?
>> It is in the context of confidential guest (where VMM is un-trusted). So
>> we don't want to make all PCI resource as shared. It should be allowed
>> only for hardened drivers/devices.
> That's confusing, isn't device authorization what keeps unaudited
> drivers from loading against untrusted devices? I'm feeling like
> Michael that this should be a detail that drivers need not care about
> explicitly, in which case it does not need to be exported because the
> detail can be buried in lower levels.

We originally made it default (similar to AMD), but it during code audit
we found a lot of drivers who do ioremap early outside the probe
function. Since it would be difficult to change them all we made it
opt-in, which ensures that only drivers that have been enabled can talk
with the host at all and can't be attacked. That made the problem of
hardening all these drivers a lot more practical.

Currently we only really need virtio and MSI-X shared, so for changing
two places in the tree you avoid a lot of headache elsewhere.

Note there is still a command line option to override if you want to
allow and load other drivers.

-Andi

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