netdev - Re: [Resend RFC PATCH V2 08/12] UIO/Hyper-V: Not load UIO HV driver in the isolation VM.

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Date:   Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:42:32 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Tianyu Lan <ltykernel@...il.com>
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
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Subject: Re: [Resend RFC PATCH V2 08/12] UIO/Hyper-V: Not load UIO HV
 driver in the isolation VM.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:49:41AM -0400, Tianyu Lan wrote:
> From: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>
> 
> UIO HV driver should not load in the isolation VM for security reason.
> Return ENOTSUPP in the hv_uio_probe() in the isolation VM.

What is the "security reason"?  After all a user can simply patch the
code and just load it anyway..