[PATCH v2 1/1] virtio: write back F_VERSION_1 before validate

Halil Pasic
2021-10-08T12:34:57Z

The virtio specification virtio-v1.1-cs01 states: "Transitional devices
MUST detect Legacy drivers by detecting that VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 has not
been acknowledged by the driver." This is exactly what QEMU as of 6.1
has done relying solely on VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 for detecting that.

However, the specification also says: "... the driver MAY read (but MUST
NOT write) the device-specific configuration fields to check that it can
support the device ..." before setting FEATURES_OK.

In that case, any transitional device relying solely on
VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 for detecting legacy drivers will return data in
legacy format. In particular, this implies that it is in big endian
format for big endian guests. This naturally confuses the driver which
expects little endian in the modern mode.

It is probably a good idea to amend the spec to clarify that
VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 can only be relied on after the feature negotiation
is complete. However, we already have a regression so let's try to address
it.

The regressions affect the VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU feature of virtio-net and
the VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE feature of virtio-blk for BE guests when
virtio 1.0 is used on both sides. The latter renders virtio-blk unusable
with DASD backing, because things simply don't work with the default.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #v4.11
Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 82e89ea077b9 ("virtio-blk: Add validation for block size in config space")
Fixes: fe36cbe0671e ("virtio_net: clear MTU when out of range")
Reported-by: markver@us.ibm.com
---
drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
index 0a5b54034d4b..236081afe9a2 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -239,6 +239,17 @@ static int virtio_dev_probe(struct device *_d)
driver_features_legacy = driver_features;
}

+ /*
+ * Some devices detect legacy solely via F_VERSION_1. Write
+ * F_VERSION_1 to force LE config space accesses before FEATURES_OK for
+ * these when needed.
+ */
+ if (drv->validate && !virtio_legacy_is_little_endian()
+ && device_features & BIT_ULL(VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)) {
+ dev->features = BIT_ULL(VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1);
+ dev->config->finalize_features(dev);
+ }
+
if (device_features & (1ULL << VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1))
dev->features = driver_features & device_features;
else

base-commit: 60a9483534ed0d99090a2ee1d4bb0b8179195f51
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2.25.1