Thread (34 messages) 34 messages, 7 authors, 2021-05-13

Re: [Resend RFC PATCH V2 08/12] UIO/Hyper-V: Not load UIO HV driver in the isolation VM.

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-04-14 15:42:37
Also in: linux-arch, linux-iommu, linux-mm, linux-scsi, lkml, netdev

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:49:41AM -0400, Tianyu Lan wrote:
From: Tianyu Lan <redacted>

UIO HV driver should not load in the isolation VM for security reason.
Return ENOTSUPP in the hv_uio_probe() in the isolation VM.
What is the "security reason"?  After all a user can simply patch the
code and just load it anyway..
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