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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@cloudius-systems.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjk@hansjkoch.de, corbet@lwn.net,
	bruce.richardson@intel.com, avi@cloudius-systems.com,
	gleb@cloudius-systems.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
	alexander.duyck@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] uio_pci_generic: add MSI/MSI-X support
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 00:05:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151007230553-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56154AB4.1050509@scylladb.com>

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 07:39:16PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> That's what I thought as well, but apparently adding msix support to the
> already insecure uio drivers is even worse.

I'm glad you finally agree what these drivers are doing is insecure.

And basically kernel cares about security, no one wants to maintain insecure stuff.

So you guys should think harder whether this code makes any sense upstream.

Getting support from kernel is probably the biggest reason to put code
upstream, and this driver taints kernel unconditionally so you don't get
that.

Alternatively, most of the problem you are trying to solve is for
virtualization - and it is is better addressed at the hypervisor level.
There are enough opensource hypervisors out there - work on IOMMU
support there would be time well spent.

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-07 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-04 20:43 [PATCH v3 0/3] uio: add MSI/MSI-X support to uio_pci_generic driver Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-04 20:43 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] uio: add ioctl support Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05  3:03   ` Greg KH
2015-10-05  7:33     ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05  8:01       ` Greg KH
2015-10-05 10:36         ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05 20:02           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
     [not found]             ` <CAOYyTHZ2=UCYxuJKvd5S6qxp=84DBq5bMadg5wL0rFLZBh2-8Q@mail.gmail.com>
2015-10-05 22:29               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06  8:33                 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 14:19                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 14:30                     ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-06 15:19                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 15:31                         ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 15:57                         ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-04 20:43 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] uio_pci_generic: add MSI/MSI-X support Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05  3:11   ` Greg KH
2015-10-05  7:41     ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05  7:56       ` Greg KH
2015-10-05 10:48         ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05 10:57           ` Greg KH
2015-10-05 11:09             ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-05 13:08               ` Greg KH
2015-10-05 11:41             ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05 11:47               ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-05 11:53                 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05  8:28     ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-05  9:49       ` Greg KH
2015-10-05 10:20         ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-06 14:38           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 14:43             ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 14:56               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 15:23                 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-06 18:51                   ` Alex Williamson
2015-10-06 21:32                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-06 21:41                       ` Alex Williamson
     [not found]                         ` <CAOaVG152OrQz-Bbnpr0VeE+vLH7nMGsG6A3sD7eTQHormNGVUg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-10-07  7:57                           ` Vlad Zolotarov
     [not found]                           ` <5614C160.6000203@scylladb.com>
2015-10-07  8:00                             ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07  8:01                               ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07  6:52                     ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-07 16:31                       ` Alex Williamson
2015-10-07 16:39                         ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-07 21:05                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2015-10-08  4:19                             ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-08  7:41                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08  7:59                                 ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-08  9:38                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08  9:45                                     ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-08 12:15                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08  5:33                             ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-08  7:32                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08  8:46                                 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-08  9:16                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08  9:44                                     ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-08 12:06                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08 12:27                                         ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-08 13:20                                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08 13:28                                             ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-08 16:43                                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08 17:01                                                 ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-08 17:39                                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08 17:53                                                     ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-08 18:38                                                     ` Greg KH
2015-10-08  8:32                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08  8:52                                 ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-08  9:19                                 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-08 10:26                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08 13:20                                     ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-08 14:17                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-08 15:31                                       ` Alex Williamson
2015-10-07 20:05                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-07  7:55                     ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-08  8:48                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 15:28                 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 14:46       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 15:27         ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-05  8:41   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-05  9:08     ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05 10:06       ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05 20:09         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-05  9:11     ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05 19:16   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-04 20:43 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation: update uio-howto Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-04 20:45 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] uio: add MSI/MSI-X support to uio_pci_generic driver Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-05 19:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06  8:37   ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 14:30     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 14:40       ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 15:13         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 16:35           ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 15:11       ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-06 15:15         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 16:00           ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-06 16:09           ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-07 10:25             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-07 10:28               ` Avi Kivity
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-10-04 20:39 Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-04 20:39 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] uio_pci_generic: add MSI/MSI-X support Vlad Zolotarov

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