From 4fa59ede95195f267101a1b8916992cf3f245cdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael S. Tsirkin Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:58:41 -0500 Subject: virtio: acknowledge all features before access The feature negotiation was designed in a way that makes it possible for devices to know which config fields will be accessed by drivers. This is broken since commit 404123c2db79 ("virtio: allow drivers to validate features") with fallout in at least block and net. We have a partial work-around in commit 2f9a174f918e ("virtio: write back F_VERSION_1 before validate") which at least lets devices find out which format should config space have, but this is a partial fix: guests should not access config space without acknowledging features since otherwise we'll never be able to change the config space format. To fix, split finalize_features from virtio_finalize_features and call finalize_features with all feature bits before validation, and then - if validation changed any bits - once again after. Since virtio_finalize_features no longer writes out features rename it to virtio_features_ok - since that is what it does: checks that features are ok with the device. As a side effect, this also reduces the amount of hypervisor accesses - we now only acknowledge features once unless we are clearing any features when validating (which is uncommon). IRC I think that this was more or less always the intent in the spec but unfortunately the way the spec is worded does not say this explicitly, I plan to address this at the spec level, too. Acked-by: Jason Wang Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 404123c2db79 ("virtio: allow drivers to validate features") Fixes: 2f9a174f918e ("virtio: write back F_VERSION_1 before validate") Cc: "Halil Pasic" Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin --- include/linux/virtio_config.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/linux/virtio_config.h index 4d107ad31149..dafdc7f48c01 100644 --- a/include/linux/virtio_config.h +++ b/include/linux/virtio_config.h @@ -64,8 +64,9 @@ struct virtio_shm_region { * Returns the first 64 feature bits (all we currently need). * @finalize_features: confirm what device features we'll be using. * vdev: the virtio_device - * This gives the final feature bits for the device: it can change + * This sends the driver feature bits to the device: it can change * the dev->feature bits if it wants. + * Note: despite the name this can be called any number of times. * Returns 0 on success or error status * @bus_name: return the bus name associated with the device (optional) * vdev: the virtio_device -- cgit v1.2.3