On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 02:32:19PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > We already agreed this kernel > >is going to be tainted, and unsupportable. > > Yes. So your only motivation in rejecting the patch is to get the author to > write the ring translation patch and port it to all relevant drivers > instead?
Not only that. To make sure users are aware they are doing insecure things when using software poking at device BARs in sysfs. To avoid giving virtualization a bad name for security. To get people to work on safe, maintainable solutions. -- MST
