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From: Dominic Eschweiler <eschweiler@fias.uni-frankfurt.de>
To: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Andreas Schallenberg <embedded@gmx.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UIO: missing resource mapping
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:44:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1342190647.6607.37.camel@blech> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120713141816.GB2554@local>

Am Freitag, den 13.07.2012, 16:18 +0200 schrieb Hans J. Koch:
> If somebody maps the card's memory through the UIO driver and somebody
> else also maps it using sysfs, that is possible. What happens if both
> write to the same hardware registers is a different topic. Writing a
> driver implies some responsibility, even if it's done in userspace. 

That's true and I would not complain. I'm just saying that there is the
possibility to disturb a kernel driver by mapping memory etc. I think it
is worth to considerate moving the BAR mapping code to UIO. Especially,
when I look at the discussions about what effects mappable DMA memory
can have on the system security. 

-- 
Gruß
  Dominic

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-13 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4FFE7C1F.7080702@gmx.net>
2012-07-12 19:44 ` UIO: missing resource mapping Hans J. Koch
2012-07-12 23:16   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-12 23:40     ` Hans J. Koch
2012-07-12 23:58       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-13  8:09     ` Dominic Eschweiler
2012-07-13 13:22       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-13 14:18         ` Hans J. Koch
2012-07-13 14:44           ` Dominic Eschweiler [this message]
2012-07-13 14:42         ` Dominic Eschweiler
2012-07-13 18:19           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-16 18:16             ` Dominic Eschweiler
2012-07-16 21:58               ` Hans J. Koch
2012-07-18 10:40                 ` Dominic Eschweiler
2012-07-18 23:47                   ` Hans J. Koch
2012-08-06 11:49                     ` Dominic Eschweiler
2012-08-08 22:08                   ` Hans J. Koch

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