Re:

Jason Wang
2022-03-30T02:38:32Z

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 6:04 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 08:13:57PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 29 2022 at 10:37, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 10:35:21AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > We are trying to fix the driver since at the moment it does not
> > > have the dev->ok flag at all.
> > >
> > > And I suspect virtio is not alone in that.
> > > So it would have been nice if there was a standard flag
> > > replacing the driver-specific dev->ok above, and ideally
> > > would also handle the case of an interrupt triggering
> > > too early by deferring the interrupt until the flag is set.
> > >
> > > And in fact, it does kind of exist: IRQF_NO_AUTOEN, and you would call
> > > enable_irq instead of dev->ok = true, except
> > > - it doesn't work with affinity managed IRQs
> > > - it does not work with shared IRQs
> > >
> > > So using dev->ok as you propose above seems better at this point.
> >
> > Unless there is a big enough amount of drivers which could make use of a
> > generic mechanism for that.
> >
> > >> If any driver does this in the wrong order, then the driver is
> > >> broken.
> > >
> > > I agree, however:
> > > $ git grep synchronize_irq `git grep -l request_irq drivers/net/`|wc -l
> > > 113
> > > $ git grep -l request_irq drivers/net/|wc -l
> > > 397
> > >
> > > I suspect there are more drivers which in theory need the
> > > synchronize_irq dance but in practice do not execute it.
> >
> > That really depends on when the driver requests the interrupt, when
> > it actually enables the interrupt in the device itself
>
> This last point does not matter since we are talking about protecting
> against buggy/malicious devices. They can inject the interrupt anyway
> even if driver did not configure it.
>
> > and how the
> > interrupt service routine works.
> >
> > So just doing that grep dance does not tell much. You really have to do
> > a case by case analysis.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > tglx
>
>
> I agree. In fact, at least for network the standard approach is to
> request interrupts in the open call, virtio net is unusual
> in doing it in probe. We should consider changing that.
> Jason?

This probably works only for virtio-net and it looks like not trivial
since we don't have a specific core API to request interrupts.

Thanks

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