From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC, resend] Re: granting access to MSI-X table and pending bit array
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:55:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C690B29020000780000FF93@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C88BF72B.1DCAE%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
>>> On 14.08.10 at 08:32, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> On 13/08/2010 14:37, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>
>> Below/attached is an untested and possibly not yet complete patch
>> attempting to address the problem originally described on this thread
>> (can't really test this myself as I don't have, with one exception,
>> any MSI-X capable devices around, and the exceptional one doesn't have
>> a driver making use of it). I had sent it once before, it only got
>> refreshed since then to build with xen-unstable as of c/s 21952, and
>> I'm re-sending it mainly because there was no feedback so far, despite
>> the original problem representing a security issue.
>
> I'm happy to check it in and see if anyone complains about breakage.
It's not really only a matter of doing a trial checkin, but also one of
finding a solution to the remaining pv-guest issue described in the
submission mail as well as the removal the remaining hole left due to
qemu temporarily mapping this space read/write for no apparent
reason other than keeping the code simple.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-16 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-13 13:37 [PATCH, RFC, resend] Re: granting access to MSI-X table and pending bit array Jan Beulich
2010-08-14 6:32 ` Keir Fraser
2010-08-16 7:55 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2010-08-26 6:24 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-08-26 7:06 ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-26 8:41 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-08-26 11:22 ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-27 1:48 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-08-27 9:10 ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-27 9:38 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-09-01 7:39 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-09-15 1:32 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-09-15 6:52 ` Keir Fraser
2010-09-15 7:02 ` Jiang, Yunhong
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