Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] vfio: blacklist legacy virtio devices

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:16:25AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:

On 2016年08月30日 10:27, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

quoted

Legacy virtio devices always bypassed an IOMMU, so using them with vfio was
never safe.

And it actually won't work since GPA is assumed in the device. So I'm not
sure this is must since we should get a IOMMU fault in this case.

We won't get an IOMMU fault for legacy systems since they
bypass the IOMMU. Instead guest userspace will get full
access to all of guest memory through the device.

quoted

  This adds a quirk detecting these and disabling VFIO unless the
noiommu mode is used.  At the moment, this only applies to virtio-pci devices.

The patch might make sense on stable as well.

Michael S. Tsirkin (2):
   vfio: report group noiommu status
   vfio: add virtio pci quirk

  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h |   1 +
  include/linux/vfio.h                |   2 +
  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c         |  14 ++++
  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_virtio.c  | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  drivers/vfio/vfio.c                 |  12 ++++
  drivers/vfio/pci/Makefile           |   1 +
  6 files changed, 170 insertions(+)
  create mode 100644 drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_virtio.c

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