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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	cohuck@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterx@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 10/10] vfio/type1: Register device notifier
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 05:47:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210226054706.GB2764758@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210222175523.GQ4247@nvidia.com>

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 01:55:23PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > +static bool strict_mmio_maps = true;
> > +module_param_named(strict_mmio_maps, strict_mmio_maps, bool, 0644);
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(strict_mmio_maps,
> > +		 "Restrict to safe DMA mappings of device memory (true).");
> 
> I think this should be a kconfig, historically we've required kconfig
> to opt-in to unsafe things that could violate kernel security. Someone
> building a secure boot trusted kernel system should not have an
> options for userspace to just turn off protections.

Agreed, but I'd go one step further:  Why should we allow the unsafe
mode at all?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-26  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-22 16:50 [RFC PATCH 00/10] vfio: Device memory DMA mapping improvements Alex Williamson
2021-02-22 16:50 ` [RFC PATCH 01/10] vfio: Create vfio_fs_type with inode per device Alex Williamson
2021-02-26  5:38   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-26 13:15     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-22 16:50 ` [RFC PATCH 02/10] vfio: Update vfio_add_group_dev() API Alex Williamson
2021-02-22 17:01   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-22 16:50 ` [RFC PATCH 03/10] vfio: Export unmap_mapping_range() wrapper Alex Williamson
2021-02-22 16:51 ` [RFC PATCH 04/10] vfio/pci: Use vfio_device_unmap_mapping_range() Alex Williamson
2021-02-22 17:22   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-24 21:55     ` Alex Williamson
2021-02-25  0:57       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-22 16:51 ` [RFC PATCH 05/10] vfio: Create a vfio_device from vma lookup Alex Williamson
2021-02-22 17:29   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-24 21:55     ` Alex Williamson
2021-02-25  0:06       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-25 22:21         ` Alex Williamson
2021-02-25 23:49           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-04 21:37             ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-04 23:16               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-05  0:07                 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-05  0:36                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-22 16:51 ` [RFC PATCH 06/10] vfio: Add a device notifier interface Alex Williamson
2021-02-22 16:51 ` [RFC PATCH 07/10] vfio/pci: Notify on device release Alex Williamson
2021-02-22 16:52 ` [RFC PATCH 08/10] vfio/type1: Refactor pfn_list clearing Alex Williamson
2021-02-22 16:52 ` [RFC PATCH 09/10] vfio/type1: Pass iommu and dma objects through to vaddr_get_pfn Alex Williamson
2021-02-22 16:52 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] vfio/type1: Register device notifier Alex Williamson
2021-02-22 17:55   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-24 21:55     ` Alex Williamson
2021-02-25  0:22       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-25 17:54         ` Peter Xu
2021-02-25 18:19           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-25 19:06             ` Peter Xu
2021-02-25 19:17               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-25 19:54                 ` Peter Xu
2021-02-26  5:47     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-02-22 18:00 ` [RFC PATCH 00/10] vfio: Device memory DMA mapping improvements Jason Gunthorpe

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