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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 22:09:33 +0000
From: "Michael Kelley (LINUX)" <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 1/1] hv_netvsc: Check status in SEND_RNDIS_PKT
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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2023 12:22 PM
>
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 19:10:16 +0000 Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> > But I'm just worried about if a VM sending at high speed, and host side is,
> > for some reason, not able to send them correctly, the log file will become
> > really big and difficult to download and read. With rate limit, we still see
> > dozens of messages every 5 seconds or so, and it tells you how many
> > messages are skipped. And, if the rate is lower, it won't skip anything.
> > Isn't this info sufficient to debug?
Agreed.
> >
> > By the way, guests cannot trust the host -- probably we shouldn't allow the
> > host to have a way to jam guest's log file?
Actually, preventing jamming the guest's log file is not a requirement
in Confidential VMs where the host is not trusted. Confidential VMs
do not prevent denial-of-service attacks, or similar. But that's another
topic. :-)
>
> +1 FWIW, the general guidance is to always rate limit prints
> which may be triggered from the datapath (which I'm guessing
> this is based on the names of things)
Fair enough. I'll do a v2 with the rate limiting.
Michael
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