Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] host trust limitation: Alter virtio default properties for protected guests

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:06:02PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> The default behaviour for virtio devices is not to use the platforms normal
> DMA paths, but instead to use the fact that it's running in a hypervisor
> to directly access guest memory.  That doesn't work if the guest's memory
> is protected from hypervisor access, such as with AMD's SEV or POWER's PEF.
> 
> So, if a host trust limitation mechanism is enabled, then apply the
> iommu_platform=on option so it will go through normal DMA mechanisms.
> Those will presumably have some way of marking memory as shared with the
> hypervisor or hardware so that DMA will work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
>  hw/core/machine.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c
> index a71792bc16..8dfc1bb3f8 100644
> --- a/hw/core/machine.c
> +++ b/hw/core/machine.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
>  #include "hw/mem/nvdimm.h"
>  #include "migration/vmstate.h"
>  #include "exec/host-trust-limitation.h"
> +#include "hw/virtio/virtio.h"
> +#include "hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h"
>  
>  GlobalProperty hw_compat_5_0[] = {
>      { "virtio-balloon-device", "page-poison", "false" },
> @@ -1165,6 +1167,15 @@ void machine_run_board_init(MachineState *machine)
>           * areas.
>           */
>          machine_set_mem_merge(OBJECT(machine), false, &error_abort);
> +
> +        /*
> +         * Virtio devices can't count on directly accessing guest
> +         * memory, so they need iommu_platform=on to use normal DMA
> +         * mechanisms.  That requires disabling legacy virtio support
> +         * for virtio pci devices
> +         */
> +        object_register_sugar_prop(TYPE_VIRTIO_PCI, "disable-legacy", "on");
> +        object_register_sugar_prop(TYPE_VIRTIO_DEVICE, "iommu_platform", 
> "on");
>      }

Silently changing the user's request configuration like this is a bad idea.
The "disable-legacy" option in particular is undesirable as that switches
the device to virtio-1.0 only mode, which exposes a different PCI ID to
the guest.

If some options are incompatible with encryption, then we should raise a
fatal error at startup, so applications/admins are aware that their requested
config is broken.

Regards,
Daniel
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