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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2022-01-14 22:58:41 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-03-16 14:57:09 +0300
commit5864f2bec17b4597cae6a65033ebd97b436224ff (patch)
treef4af45238082c97f4cf28e2abdfaafcc1e3aadb2 /include
parent3bfbae141b5166e894a8f9c77453504443b5de60 (diff)
downloadlinux-5864f2bec17b4597cae6a65033ebd97b436224ff.tar.xz
virtio: acknowledge all features before access
commit 4fa59ede95195f267101a1b8916992cf3f245cdb upstream. The feature negotiation was designed in a way that makes it possible for devices to know which config fields will be accessed by drivers. This is broken since commit 404123c2db79 ("virtio: allow drivers to validate features") with fallout in at least block and net. We have a partial work-around in commit 2f9a174f918e ("virtio: write back F_VERSION_1 before validate") which at least lets devices find out which format should config space have, but this is a partial fix: guests should not access config space without acknowledging features since otherwise we'll never be able to change the config space format. To fix, split finalize_features from virtio_finalize_features and call finalize_features with all feature bits before validation, and then - if validation changed any bits - once again after. Since virtio_finalize_features no longer writes out features rename it to virtio_features_ok - since that is what it does: checks that features are ok with the device. As a side effect, this also reduces the amount of hypervisor accesses - we now only acknowledge features once unless we are clearing any features when validating (which is uncommon). IRC I think that this was more or less always the intent in the spec but unfortunately the way the spec is worded does not say this explicitly, I plan to address this at the spec level, too. Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 404123c2db79 ("virtio: allow drivers to validate features") Fixes: 2f9a174f918e ("virtio: write back F_VERSION_1 before validate") Cc: "Halil Pasic" <pasic@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/virtio_config.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
index 5559a2d31c46..b1bc50ee09db 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_config.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
@@ -51,8 +51,9 @@ struct irq_affinity;
* Returns the first 32 feature bits (all we currently need).
* @finalize_features: confirm what device features we'll be using.
* vdev: the virtio_device
- * This gives the final feature bits for the device: it can change
+ * This sends the driver feature bits to the device: it can change
* the dev->feature bits if it wants.
+ * Note: despite the name this can be called any number of times.
* Returns 0 on success or error status
* @bus_name: return the bus name associated with the device
* vdev: the virtio_device