The Solarflare Communications SFC9220 NIC's physical function (PF) appears to expose an expansion ROM with the following characteristics:
(1) Single-image ROM, with only a legacy BIOS image (no UEFI driver). Alex's rom-parser utility dumps it like this: > Valid ROM signature found @0h, PCIR offset 20h > PCIR: type 0 (x86 PC-AT), vendor: 1924, device: 0a03, class: 000002 > PCIR: revision 3, vendor revision: 1 > Last image (2) The BIOS image crashes when booted on i440fx. (3) The BIOS image prints the following messages on q35: > Solarflare Boot Manager (v5.2.2.1006) > Solarflare Communications 2008-2019 > gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - [...] PCI[...] PnP PMM[...] So it appears like a modified derivative of old gPXE. Alex surmised in advance that the BIOS image could be accessing host-physical addresses rather than guest-phys ones, leading to the crash on i440fx. Don't expose the option ROM BAR to the VM by default. While this prevents netbooting the VM off the PF on q35/SeaBIOS (a relatively rare scenario), it does not make any difference for UEFI, and at least the VM doesn't crash during boot on i440fx/SeaBIOS (a relatively frequent scenario). Users can restore the original behavior via the QEMU cmdline and the libvirt domain XML. (In two years, we've not seen any customer interest in this bug, hence there's no incentive to investigate (2).) Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com> (supporter:VFIO) Cc: "Cédric Le Goater" <c...@redhat.com> (supporter:VFIO) Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975776 Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> --- hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c b/hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c index f4ff83680572..270eb16b91fa 100644 --- a/hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c +++ b/hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c @@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ static const struct { uint32_t device; } rom_denylist[] = { { 0x14e4, 0x168e }, /* Broadcom BCM 57810 */ + { 0x1924, 0x0a03 }, /* Solarflare Communications + * SFC9220 10/40G Ethernet Controller + * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975776 + */ }; bool vfio_opt_rom_in_denylist(VFIOPCIDevice *vdev)
