Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qemu pci: pci_add_capability enhancement to prevent damaging config space

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

12.05.2012 5:20, Jason Baron написал:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:45:21PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> Normally the pci_add_capability is called on devices to add new
>> capability. This is ok for emulated devices which capabilities list
>> is being built by QEMU.
>>
>> In the case of VFIO the capability may already exist and adding new
>> capability into the beginning of the linked list may create a loop.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't quite understand how we get a loop, if 'offset' is supplied to
> 'pci_add_capability' and there is an overlap we get -EINVAL. Otherwise,
> we are adding the capability in a new empty space. So, I see how we
> could get the capability in the list twice, but not how there is a loop.
> what am I missing?


This happens only with VFIO.

The capability already exists in the config space as it is fetched from
the host kernel _before_ msi_init is called. Furthermore, msi_init() is
called when VFIO sees this capability in the config space.

We probably want to re-add all capabilities, do not know...



> Thanks,
> 
> -Jason
> 
>>
>> For example, the old code destroys the following config
>> of PCIe Intel E1000E:
>>
>> before adding PCI_CAP_ID_MSI (0x05):
>> 0x34: 0xC8
>> 0xC8: 0x01 0xD0
>> 0xD0: 0x05 0xE0
>> 0xE0: 0x10 0x00
>>
>> after:
>> 0x34: 0xD0
>> 0xC8: 0x01 0xD0
>> 0xD0: 0x05 0xC8
>> 0xE0: 0x10 0x00
>>
>> As result capabilities 0x01 and 0x05 point to each other.
>>
>> The proposed patch does not change capability pointers when
>> the same type capability is about to add.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  hw/pci.c |   10 ++++++----
>>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/pci.c b/hw/pci.c
>> index aa0c0b8..1f7c924 100644
>> --- a/hw/pci.c
>> +++ b/hw/pci.c
>> @@ -1794,10 +1794,12 @@ int pci_add_capability(PCIDevice *pdev, uint8_t 
>> cap_id,
>>      }
>>
>>      config = pdev->config + offset;
>> -    config[PCI_CAP_LIST_ID] = cap_id;
>> -    config[PCI_CAP_LIST_NEXT] = pdev->config[PCI_CAPABILITY_LIST];
>> -    pdev->config[PCI_CAPABILITY_LIST] = offset;
>> -    pdev->config[PCI_STATUS] |= PCI_STATUS_CAP_LIST;
>> +    if (config[PCI_CAP_LIST_ID] != cap_id) {
>> +        config[PCI_CAP_LIST_ID] = cap_id;
>> +        config[PCI_CAP_LIST_NEXT] = pdev->config[PCI_CAPABILITY_LIST];
>> +        pdev->config[PCI_CAPABILITY_LIST] = offset;
>> +        pdev->config[PCI_STATUS] |= PCI_STATUS_CAP_LIST;
>> +    }
>>      memset(pdev->used + offset, 0xFF, size);
>>      /* Make capability read-only by default */
>>      memset(pdev->wmask + offset, 0, size);



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With best regards

Alexey Kardashevskiy -- icq: 52150396