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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Tom Lyon <pugs@lyon-about.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] uio_pci_generic: extensions to allow access for non-privileged processes
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:43:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBF674C.30201@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004090934.16891.pugs@lyon-about.com>

On 04/09/2010 07:34 PM, Tom Lyon wrote:
>> - access to all config space, but BARs must be translated so userspace
>> cannot attack the host
>>      
> Please elaborate. All of PCI config? All of PCIe config? Seems like a huge mess.
>    

Yes.  Anything a guest's device driver may want to access.

> The 'check' items are already done, not fully tested; probably available next week.
> Can we leave the others for future patches? Please?

Hey, I was expecting we'd have to do all of this.  The requirements list 
was to get the uio maintainers confirmation that this is going in an 
acceptable direction.

We can definitely proceed incrementally.

> And I definitely need help with
> the PCI config stuff.
>    

Sure.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-09 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-01  0:08 [PATCH 0/1] uio_pci_generic: extensions to allow access for non-privileged processes Tom Lyon
2010-04-01  0:12 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Tom Lyon
2010-04-09  9:08   ` Joerg Roedel
2010-04-09 16:27     ` Tom Lyon
2010-04-01  9:09 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Avi Kivity
2010-04-01 15:39   ` Tom Lyon
2010-04-01 15:54     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-01 16:06       ` Tom Lyon
2010-04-01 16:10         ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-01 19:24           ` Tom Lyon
2010-04-01 20:21             ` Joerg Roedel
2010-04-02  6:43             ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-02 17:05               ` Greg KH
2010-04-09  9:58                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-09 16:34                   ` Tom Lyon
2010-04-09 16:48                     ` [PATCH 0/1] uio_pci_generic: extensions to allow access for?non-privileged processes Joerg Roedel
2010-04-09 17:43                     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-04-09 20:09                     ` Chris Wright
2010-04-09 20:05                   ` [PATCH 0/1] uio_pci_generic: extensions to allow access for non-privileged processes Chris Wright
2010-04-01 21:27       ` Tom Lyon
2010-04-02  6:44         ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-01 12:52 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-04-01 15:40   ` Tom Lyon
2010-04-01 16:07     ` Joerg Roedel
2010-04-01 19:18       ` Tom Lyon
2010-04-01 20:09         ` Joerg Roedel
2010-04-01 14:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-04-01 16:02   ` Tom Lyon
2010-04-01 16:57   ` Joerg Roedel
2010-04-01 19:08 ` Hans J. Koch

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