linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3] virtio: disable notification hardening by default

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Message-ID: <20220628023832-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Jun 2022 02:44:40 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc:     Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Halil Pasic <pasic@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] virtio: disable notification hardening by default

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 02:32:19PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > Question is are there drivers which kick before they are ready
> > to handle callbacks?
> 
> Let me try to have a look at all the drivers to answer this.

One thing to note is that I consider hardening probe and
hardening remove separate features. I think that at this point
for secured guests it is prudent to outright block device
removal - we have been finding races in removal for years.
Note sure there's a flag for that but it's probably not too hard to add
e.g. to pci core.

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MST