On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Tantilov, Emil S <[email protected]> wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >>Behalf Of Or Gerlitz >>Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 2:08 AM >>To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T <[email protected]> >>Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>; Greenwalt, Paul >><[email protected]>; Linux Netdev List <[email protected]>; >>[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [net-next v2 6/6] ixgbe: Add malicious driver detection >>support >> >>On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Jeff Kirsher >><[email protected]> wrote: >>> From: Paul Greenwalt <[email protected]> >>> >>> Add malicious driver detection (MDD) support for X550, X550em_a, >>> and X550em_x devices. >>> >>> MDD is a hardware SR-IOV security feature which the driver enables by >>> default, but can be controlled on|off by ethtool set-priv-flags >> >>wait, we have the trusted vf concept, which you implement >>(ixgbe_ndo_set_vf_trust) >>so you can enable by default for all vfs and disable it for trusted >>ones, why create[] an ixgbe special config knob? IMHO we should max all >>possible efforts to >>avoid priv ethtool flags usage. > > The "trusted" option was added to allow use cases that were not possible in > the > default driver configuration for SRIOV (promiscuous mode, overriding the MAC). > While these modes can lead to issues (performance with promisc) they can still > be useful for certain configurations. > > MDD is a completely different type of protection that incorporates checks for > queue context, Tx descriptors and out-of-bounds DMA/memory access that can > disrupt the operation of the interfaces. You can read more about it in the > X550 > datasheet (section 7.9.4.3 malicious Driver Detection): > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/products/networking/ethernet-controller-x550-family-documentation.html > > For that reason we do not want to make it part of the "trusted" option.
you can extend the trusted option without breaking the UAPI, currently it's one bit y/n, but you should have there at least seven more bits to use. > In addition MDD is a global setting and cannot be configured per-VF. can you state more clearly why use think the right configuration knob here is per driver ethtool private flag? Or.
