Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-Oct-11 17:03 UTC
[PATCH vfio 10/11] vfio/virtio: Expose admin commands over virtio device
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 09:18:49AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:> The simple way to be sure is to never touch the PCI function that has > DMA assigned to a VM from the hypervisor, except through config space.What makes config space different that it's safe though? Isn't this more of a "we can't avoid touching config space" than that it's safe? The line doesn't look that bright to me - if there's e.g. a memory area designed explicitly for hypervisor to poke at, that seems fine. -- MST