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Date:   Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:14:18 -0700
From:   Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan" 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/15] pci: Add pci_iomap_shared{,_range}


On 8/23/2021 6:04 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 5:31 PM Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
> <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.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@...ux.intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.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We originally made it default (similar to AMD), but it during code audit 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