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Re: [PATCH 1/3] intel-iommu: don't warn guest errors when getting rid2pa
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Jason Wang |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 1/3] intel-iommu: don't warn guest errors when getting rid2pasid entry |
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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:16:35 +0800 |
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 11:35 AM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 12:19:43PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > We use to warn on wrong rid2pasid entry. But this error could be
> > triggered by the guest and could happens during initialization. So
> > let's don't warn in this case.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > hw/i386/intel_iommu.c | 6 ++++--
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c b/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c
> > index 4c6c016388..f2c7a23712 100644
> > --- a/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c
> > +++ b/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c
> > @@ -1524,8 +1524,10 @@ static bool vtd_dev_pt_enabled(IntelIOMMUState *s,
> > VTDContextEntry *ce)
> > if (s->root_scalable) {
> > ret = vtd_ce_get_rid2pasid_entry(s, ce, &pe);
> > if (ret) {
> > - error_report_once("%s: vtd_ce_get_rid2pasid_entry error:
> > %"PRId32,
> > - __func__, ret);
> > + /*
> > + * This error is guest triggerable. We should assumt PT
> > + * not enabled for safety.
> > + */
> > return false;
> > }
> > return (VTD_PE_GET_TYPE(&pe) == VTD_SM_PASID_ENTRY_PT);
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >
>
> No strong opinion, but the thing is mostly all error_report_once() in this
> file
> is guest triggerable. If we remove this one then it's debatable on whether we
> want to remove all.
>
> IMHO we used the _once() variant just for this: it won't go into any form of
> DoS, meanwhile we'll still get some information (as hypervisor) that the guest
> OS may not be trustworthy.
>
> So from that pov it's still useful? Or is this error very special in some
> way?
I want to be consistent with vtd_as_pt_enabled() where we don't even
have error_report_once().
Thanks
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Peter Xu
>
[PATCH 2/3] intel-iommu: drop VTDBus, Jason Wang, 2022/01/04