From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016DFC00523 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 00:21:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD72221835 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 00:21:41 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linaro.org header.i=@linaro.org header.b="gRnVfA7F" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726703AbgADAVl (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jan 2020 19:21:41 -0500 Received: from mail-lj1-f196.google.com ([209.85.208.196]:36311 "EHLO mail-lj1-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727156AbgADAVk (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jan 2020 19:21:40 -0500 Received: by mail-lj1-f196.google.com with SMTP id r19so45404371ljg.3 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:21:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linaro.org; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=a25MTBnzC/TY/vt8zz8+qKKJTGhY6mCF1CmPfY1tykI=; b=gRnVfA7FDAgs73jNy22XumTxemh0aYDjK9B1YAV7aDhmr0DazAVJiMp4WVw1bkv31/ bcATx1sRwYkcsu4O0LQVmlmjSHW5VtsN8kArTfZitHm7x//5M6K3YcSNLlNrU4k2nXBM yt6DH6rszExsqnVul0yZCOGTl1phucIVvqvK/Gcklh4kjZC6VQ1xu9ZmRNx0Ik5oj39W PUCHY1sxyw3q0Pr498xt9akwnDTU17FpPWdhZ0+b30zgWzvbnxDXRO1SyZ+eSC73LL7M 4bTSAi5L7Qao6/+sTppkChYPciZ16A05vGdttDOmIm7Rn2KAj85O40F9gtCbP1HMl69m XGZg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=a25MTBnzC/TY/vt8zz8+qKKJTGhY6mCF1CmPfY1tykI=; b=OyuxHGZMAG8ycv3iGHGbEtp58LON7ap/768giMA4h3GXegTzQ6SGUT26TR/5zP8w37 28l9Nsm9WsVtblOGTTfXMfrDZXzcC3RAsYp00DhRvxj8ZtxAvrlcpWM0wR2lwUdQfMBU Tl0UCoOAJ9F6Yq8fjckTpiGvyx5a3ixTPYwXHqHxZdmdOvk5a72QAIchESKd5yk3G/CE sV4X9M47WNGIscIk/x7UhnMADlstzr3yBH3IsVI590qY55bcaRnRP3rFmXG4y2m2pg2i UFJyZgffXfpb0CTEcFOt5y03PgAmIpn7Q73+3r76XVrmI5LiBN+IBkLJRM4WI/qZs5eO XexA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAW5uxzpgXRQ86LNTg20evPlZQRfLOcDTKeJmuHxwQf9eyKWeEEC UktaPoYyPuYjQswBprkT8712ScULBmfAIHaBCaWwDA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxHT5NBcGXP7l31r/rUzGwxDXqF6xPcQ35bsC0BAshJRd7O7pJFod6OutyDNvKjGim9p9LsFYX1ulkLOKLmCGs= X-Received: by 2002:a2e:85cd:: with SMTP id h13mr51946653ljj.191.1578097298469; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:21:38 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20191127084253.16356-1-geert+renesas@glider.be> <20191127084253.16356-7-geert+renesas@glider.be> In-Reply-To: From: Linus Walleij Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 01:21:27 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] docs: gpio: Add GPIO Aggregator/Repeater documentation To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Bartosz Golaszewski , Jonathan Corbet , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Harish Jenny K N , Eugeniu Rosca , Alexander Graf , Peter Maydell , Paolo Bonzini , Phil Reid , Marc Zyngier , Christoffer Dall , Magnus Damm , "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" , Linux Doc Mailing List , "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" , Linux-Renesas , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , QEMU Developers Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 3:48 PM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 3:42 PM Linus Walleij wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 9:43 AM Geert Uytterhoeven > > wrote: > > > +The GPIO Aggregator allows access control for individual GPIOs, by aggregating > > > +them into a new gpio_chip, which can be assigned to a group or user using > > > +standard UNIX file ownership and permissions. Furthermore, this simplifies and > > > +hardens exporting GPIOs to a virtual machine, as the VM can just grab the full > > > +GPIO controller, and no longer needs to care about which GPIOs to grab and > > > +which not, reducing the attack surface. > > > + > > > +Aggregated GPIO controllers are instantiated and destroyed by writing to > > > +write-only attribute files in sysfs. > > > > I suppose virtual machines will have a lengthy config file where > > they specify which GPIO lines to pick and use for their GPIO > > aggregator, and that will all be fine, the VM starts and the aggregator > > is there and we can start executing. > > > > I would perhaps point out a weakness as with all sysfs and with the current > > gpio sysfs: if a process creates an aggregator device, and then that > > process crashes, what happens when you try to restart the process and > > run e.g. your VM again? > > > > Time for a hard reboot? Or should we add some design guidelines for > > these machines so that they can cleanly tear down aggregators > > previously created by the crashed VM? > > No, the VM does not create the aggregator. > > The idea is for the user to create one or more aggregators, set up > permissions on /dev/gpiochipX, and launch the VM, passing the aggregated > /dev/gpiochipX as parameters. > If the VM crashes, just launch it again. > > Destroying the aggregators is a manual and independent process, after > the VM has exited. I'm thinking about someone making some industrial application for some control of a machinery say a robotic arm. And do make sure this VM is only controlling these GPIOs related to this robotic arm, they create a GPIO aggregator. And we care about cases like that since we provide this security argument. Surely that machine will be rebooted. Surely they don't have a printed paper with all the commands lying at the console, and asking whoever powers it back on to manually type it all in again. That feels a bit 1981. So they will have a script for this I suppose. Possibly in some initscript so it is set up on boot. And this script echos stuff all over the place to set up the aggregator. Is this the use case you're thinking of? I just like to have the whole picture here. Yours, Linus Walleij