From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 00/10] Add Intel VT-d nested translation
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 02:29:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BN9PR11MB5276281676BAC321CB08D1048C58A@BN9PR11MB5276.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZImqERPS0UV6mBsG@nvidia.com>
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 7:53 PM
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 08:07:30AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>
> > think of a scenario where the vbios memory is shared by multiple qemu
> > instances then RW allows a malicious VM to modify the shared content
> > then potentially attacking other VMs.
>
> qemu would have to map the vbios as MAP_PRIVATE WRITE before the
> iommu
> side could map it writable, so this is not a real worry.
>
Make sense.
but IMHO it's still safer to reduce the permission (RO->NP) than increasing
the permission (RO->RW) when faithfully emulating bare metal behavior
is impossible, especially when there is no real usage counting on it. 😊
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-16 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-11 14:51 [PATCH v3 00/10] Add Intel VT-d nested translation Yi Liu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] iommufd: Add data structure for Intel VT-d stage-1 domain allocation Yi Liu
2023-05-24 6:59 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-25 2:28 ` Zhang, Tina
2023-05-29 20:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-05-29 19:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] iommu/vt-d: Extend dmar_domain to support nested domain Yi Liu
2023-05-24 7:02 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-26 2:56 ` Baolu Lu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] iommu/vt-d: Add helper for nested domain allocation Yi Liu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] iommu/vt-d: Add helper to setup pasid nested translation Yi Liu
2023-05-24 7:16 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-26 4:16 ` Baolu Lu
2023-06-07 8:34 ` Liu, Yi L
2023-06-08 3:32 ` Liu, Yi L
2023-06-08 3:35 ` Liu, Yi L
2023-06-08 3:37 ` Baolu Lu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] iommu/vt-d: Make domain attach helpers to be extern Yi Liu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] iommu/vt-d: Set the nested domain to a device Yi Liu
2023-05-24 7:22 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-26 4:24 ` Baolu Lu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] iommu/vt-d: Add iotlb flush for nested domain Yi Liu
2023-05-24 7:33 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-06-08 7:14 ` Liu, Yi L
2023-06-08 8:07 ` Baolu Lu
2023-06-20 6:22 ` Liu, Yi L
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] iommu/vt-d: Add nested domain allocation Yi Liu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] iommu/vt-d: Implement hw_info for iommu capability query Yi Liu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] iommu/vt-d: Disallow nesting on domains with read-only mappings Yi Liu
2023-05-24 7:44 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-26 4:28 ` Baolu Lu
2023-05-24 8:59 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Add Intel VT-d nested translation Tian, Kevin
2023-05-25 18:06 ` Alex Williamson
2023-05-26 11:25 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-29 18:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-05-30 0:16 ` Alex Williamson
2023-05-30 16:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-06-14 8:07 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-06-14 11:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-06-16 2:29 ` Tian, Kevin [this message]
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