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Re: [PATCH] Revert "evtchn: refuse EVTCHNOP_status for Xen-bound event channels"
- To: "Daniel P. Smith" <dpsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 13:54:03 +0200
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- Cc: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Delivery-date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:54:08 +0000
- List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>
On 03.04.2024 13:50, Daniel P. Smith wrote:
> On 4/3/24 02:52, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 03.04.2024 08:16, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> On 02.04.2024 19:06, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>>> Whether to return information about a xen-owned evtchn is a matter of
>>>> policy,
>>>> and it's not acceptable to short circuit the XSM on the matter.
>>>
>>> I can certainly accept this as one possible view point. As in so many cases
>>> I'm afraid I dislike you putting it as if it was the only possible one.
>>
>> Further to this: Is there even a way to express the same denial in XSM?
>> alloc_unbound_xen_event_channel() doesn't specifically "mark" such a
>> channel, and (yes, it could in principle be open-coded in Flask code)
>> consumer_is_xen() is private to event_channel.c. I also dare to question
>> whether in SILO mode status information like this should be available.
>
> To build on the previous response: if the natural failure return value
> is -EACCESS in response to a domain resource access attempt, then the
> probability is extremely high that it should be implemented under a XSM
> hook and not hard-coded into the resource logic.
Possibly. But first of all - could you answer the earlier question I raised?
Jan
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