Re: [PATCH 3/5] vfio/pci: add qat devices to blocklist

Bjorn Helgaas
2020-07-10T15:44:40Z

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 10:37:45AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 04:08:19PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 04:28:12PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 12:03:00PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> > > > The current generation of Intel® QuickAssist Technology devices
> > > > are not designed to run in an untrusted environment because of the
> > > > following issues reported in the release notes in
> > > > https://01.org/intel-quickassist-technology:
> > >
> > > It would be nice if this link were directly clickable, e.g., if there
> > > were no trailing ":" or something.
> > >
> > > And it would be even better if it went to a specific doc that
> > > described these issues. I assume these are errata, and it's not easy
> > > to figure out which doc mentions them.
> > Sure. I will fix the commit message in the next revision and point to the
> > actual document:
> > https://01.org/sites/default/files/downloads/336211-015-qatsoftwareforlinux-rn-hwv1.7-final.pdf
>
> Since URLs tend to go stale, please also include the Intel document
> number and title.

Oh, and is "01.org" really the right place for that? It looks like an
Intel document, so I'd expect it to be somewhere on intel.com.

I'm still a little confused. That doc seems to be about *software*
and Linux software in particular. But when you said these "devices
are not designed to run in an untrusted environment", I thought you
meant there was some *hardware* design issue that caused a problem.

Bjorn