linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 11/15] pci: Add pci_iomap_shared{,

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Message-ID: <bb8c6f96-2597-bb80-bd08-7958405e1bf5@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:50:00 -0700
From:   Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan" 
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        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
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        Rajat Jain <rajatja@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/15] pci: Add pci_iomap_shared{,_range}


On 8/24/2021 1:31 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 01:14:02PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> On 8/24/2021 11:55 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>> [+cc Rajat; I still don't know what "shared memory with a hypervisor
>>> in a confidential guest" means,
>> A confidential guest is a guest which uses memory encryption to isolate
>> itself from the host. It doesn't trust the host. But it still needs to
>> communicate with the host for IO, so it has some special memory areas that
>> are explicitly marked shared. These are used to do IO with the host. All
>> their usage needs to be carefully hardened to avoid any security attacks on
>> the guest, that's why we want to limit this interaction only to a small set
>> of hardened drivers. For MMIO, the set is currently only virtio and MSI-X.
> Good material for the commit log next time around.  Thanks!

This is all in the patch intro too, which should make it into the merge 
commits.

I don't think we can reexplain the basic concepts for every individual 
patch in a large patch kit.


-Andi