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Re: [PATCH v2] pci/ats: do not allow broken devices to be assigned to guests


  • To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:43:13 +0100
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On 24.02.2022 17:37, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> Introduce a new field to mark devices as broken: having it set
> prevents the device from being assigned to guests. Use the field in
> order to mark ATS devices that have failed a flush as broken, thus
> preventing them to be assigned to any guest.
> 
> This allows the device IOMMU context entry to be cleaned up properly,
> as calling _pci_hide_device will just change the ownership of the
> device, but the IOMMU context entry of the device would be left as-is.
> It would also leak a Domain ID, as removing the device from it's
> previous owner will allow releasing the DID used by the device without
> having cleaned up the context entry.

This DID aspect is VT-d specific, isn't it? I'd be inclined to ask to
make this explicit (which could be done while committing if no other
need for a v3 arises).

> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Jan




 


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