linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] pci: set "untrusted" flag for truly external devices only

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Message-ID: <20200616090730.GF2795@lahna.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:07:30 +0300
From:   Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Rajat Jain <rajatja@...gle.com>
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Raj Ashok <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        lalithambika.krishnakumar@...el.com,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
        Prashant Malani <pmalani@...gle.com>,
        Benson Leung <bleung@...gle.com>,
        Todd Broch <tbroch@...gle.com>,
        Alex Levin <levinale@...gle.com>,
        Mattias Nissler <mnissler@...gle.com>,
        Rajat Jain <rajatxjain@...il.com>,
        Bernie Keany <bernie.keany@...el.com>,
        Aaron Durbin <adurbin@...gle.com>,
        Diego Rivas <diegorivas@...gle.com>,
        Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@...gle.com>,
        Furquan Shaikh <furquan@...gle.com>,
        Jesse Barnes <jsbarnes@...gle.com>,
        Christian Kellner <christian@...lner.me>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        oohall@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] pci: set "untrusted" flag for truly external devices
 only

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 06:17:40PM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:
> The "ExternalFacing" devices (root ports) are still internal devices
> that sit on the internal system fabric and thus trusted. Currently they
> were being marked untrusted - likely as an unintended border case.

It was actually intentional :) At the time this was added we did not see
benefits from doing this and even with this you actually are going to
still miss things like a TBT chip that is soldered on the motherboard, I
guess that can be though as an internal device as well.

No objections to this patch, though.