> -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 3:17 AM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Christoph Hellwig; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; oher...@suse.com; > jbottom...@parallels.com; jasow...@redhat.com; a...@canonical.com; > linux-s...@vger.kernel.org; sta...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] drivers: scsi: storvsc: Set srb_flags in all cases > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:40:09PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:46:51PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > > Correctly set SRB flags for all valid I/O directions. Some IHV > > > > drivers on the Windows host require this. > > > > > > What are IHV drivers? > > > > If the target is a SAN device, the host simply passes the request over to > > the > native driver stack on the host. Some specific hardware (IHV - independent > hadware vendor) drivers on Windows require that SRB flags be correctly set > in all cases. > > > > I'm fine with putting this in, but treating I/O request from guests as > trusted in > a hypervisor doesn't seem like a good idea in general..
The host does validate the guest request before forwarding the request to the appropriate target. K. Y _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
