On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:47:46 -0800
Zach Reizner wrote:
> > Thats why I don't like the new virtio device idea much and would prefer
> > vhost being reused, either directly (#1) or via proxy (#2).
>
> For crosvm's purposes, we are looking at ways to reduce vhost usage in
> order to reduce host
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 18:28:42 +0100
Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Based on all previous discussions, I could identify 3 different
> approaches:
>
> 1/ Use VSOCK and extend it to support passing (some) FDs
> 2/ Use a user space VSOCK-based proxy that's in charge of
>a/ passing regular
On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:32:16 +0100
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > As pointed in my reply to David's email, I'm a bit worried by the
> > security implications of this approach. As long as the dmabuf -> UUID
> > conversion stays in kernel space we should be safe, but if we start
> > allowing
Hi,
> As pointed in my reply to David's email, I'm a bit worried by the
> security implications of this approach. As long as the dmabuf -> UUID
> conversion stays in kernel space we should be safe, but if we start
> allowing a guest proxy (running in userland) to send raw UUIDs on a
> VSOCK
Hi Stéphane,
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:01:02 -0800
Stéphane Marchesin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:28 AM Boris Brezillon <
> boris.brezil...@collabora.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I recently took over Tomeu's task of upstreaming virtio-wayland. After
> > spending quite a bit
Hi Gerd,
Sorry for the delay, I was OOO last week.
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:38:56 +0100
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > #1 might require extra care if we want to make it safe, as pointed
> > out by Stefan here [4] (but I wonder if the problem is not the same
> > for a virtio-wayland based
> > > FD <-> VFD mappings would have to be created
> > > by the subsystem in charge of the object backing the FD (virtio-gpu for
> > > exported GEM buffers, virtio-vdec for video buffers, vsock for unix
> > > sockets if we decide to bridge unix and vsock sockets to make it
> > > transparent, ...).
Hi David,
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:06:21 +0900
David Stevens wrote:
> > FD <-> VFD mappings would have to be created
> > by the subsystem in charge of the object backing the FD (virtio-gpu for
> > exported GEM buffers, virtio-vdec for video buffers, vsock for unix
> > sockets if we decide to
