Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vhost: do not verify ring mappings when IOMMU is enabled

[Igor Mammedov]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:01:49 +0800
Jason Wang <address@hidden> wrote:

> When IOMMU is enabled, we store virtqueue metadata as iova (though it
> may has _phys suffix) and access them through dma helpers. Any
> translation failures could be reported by IOMMU.
> 
> In this case, trying to validate iova against gpa won't work and will
> cause a false error reporting. So this patch bypasses the ring
> verification if IOMMU is enabled which is similar to the behavior
> before 0ca1fd2d6878 that calls vhost_memory_map() which is a nop when
> IOMMU is enabled.
> 
> Fixes: 0ca1fd2d6878 ("vhost: Simplify ring verification checks")
> Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> Cc: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>


Looks like candidat for 2.12 if it's not too late?

> ---
>  hw/virtio/vhost.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost.c b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
> index f51bf57..9d5850a 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio/vhost.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
> @@ -342,6 +342,10 @@ static int vhost_verify_ring_mappings(struct vhost_dev 
> *dev,
>          "used ring"
>      };
>  
> +    if (vhost_dev_has_iommu(dev)) {
> +        return 0;
> +    }
> +
>      for (i = 0; i < dev->nvqs; ++i) {
>          struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = dev->vqs + i;
>