Regardless if the issue is actually in the host kernel, I cannot fix all the hypervisors so I must attempt to be well behaved as a guest.
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hemminger < step...@networkplumber.org> wrote: > > > On Nov 7, 2017 20:50, "Chas Williams" <3ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We still have an issue with this and PCI pass-through. If a guest is > restarted while using PCI pass-through and igb_uio issues a > pci_reset_function(), this causes the host to crash. > > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > wrote: > >> 06/11/2017 19:48, Ferruh Yigit: >> > Some devices are having problem on device reset that happens during DPDK >> > application exit [1]. >> > >> > Create a static list of devices and exclude them from device reset. >> > >> > [1] >> > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-November/080927.html >> > >> > Fixes: b58eedfc7dd5 ("igb_uio: issue FLR during open and release of >> device file") >> > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> >> >> Applied, thanks >> >> An option may be required to disable this exception >> which may be a security hole. >> >> > > Which host. Anything guest can do to crash host is a high severity big in > the host >
