On 2011-12-20 09:49, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 20:19 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: >> This option has no users and it exposes a security hole that we >> can allow devices to be assigned without iommu protection. Make >> KVM_DEV_ASSIGN_ENABLE_IOMMU a mandatory option. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <[email protected]> >> --- >> >> virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c | 18 +++++++++--------- >> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c b/virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c >> index 3ad0925..a251a28 100644 >> --- a/virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c >> +++ b/virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c >> @@ -487,6 +487,9 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device(struct kvm *kvm, >> struct kvm_assigned_dev_kernel *match; >> struct pci_dev *dev; >> >> + if (!(assigned_dev->flags & KVM_DEV_ASSIGN_ENABLE_IOMMU)) >> + return -EINVAL; > > Could we just drop KVM_DEV_ASSIGN_ENABLE_IOMMU and do it by default? > calling KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE without that flag set it pretty > meaningless.
There is that thing called "backward compatibility". :) Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
