> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefa...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 12:27 AM
> To: Liu, Changpeng <changpeng....@intel.com>
> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; pbonz...@redhat.com; m...@redhat.com;
> marcandre.lur...@redhat.com; fel...@nutanix.com; Harris, James R
> <james.r.har...@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] vhost-user: add new vhost user messages to support
> virtio config space
>
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 04:44:37AM +0800, Changpeng Liu wrote:
> > Add VHOST_USER_GET_CONFIG/VHOST_USER_SET_CONFIG messages which can
> be
> > used for live migration of vhost user devices, also vhost user devices
> > can benefit from the messages to get/set virtio config space from/to the
> > I/O target. For the purpose to support virtio config space change,
> > VHOST_USER_SET_CONFIG_FD message is added as the event notifier
> > in case virtio config space change in the I/O target.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Changpeng Liu <changpeng....@intel.com>
> > ---
> > docs/interop/vhost-user.txt | 39 ++++++++++++++++
> > hw/virtio/vhost-user.c | 98
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > hw/virtio/vhost.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > include/hw/virtio/vhost-backend.h | 8 ++++
> > include/hw/virtio/vhost.h | 16 +++++++
> > 5 files changed, 224 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt b/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt
> > index 954771d..1b98388 100644
> > --- a/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt
> > +++ b/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt
> > @@ -116,6 +116,16 @@ Depending on the request type, payload can be:
> > - 3: IOTLB invalidate
> > - 4: IOTLB access fail
> >
> > + * Virtio device config space
> > + ---------------------------
> > + | offset | size | payload |
> > + ---------------------------
> > +
> > + Offset: a 32-bit offset of virtio device's configuration space
>
> s/of/in the/
>
> > + Size: a 32-bit size of configuration space that master wanted to change
>
> Is this also used for GET_CONFIG? If yes, I suggest "a 32-bit
> configuration space access size in bytes".
ok.
>
> Please mention that Size must be <= 256 bytes.
>
> > + Payload: a 256-bytes array holding the contents of the virtio
> > + device's configuration space
>
> What about bytes outside the [offset, offset+size) range? I guess they
> must be 0 and are ignored by the master/slave.
>
> Would it be cleaner to make Payload a variable-sized field with Size
> bytes? That way it's not necessary to transfer 0s and memcpy() a subset
> of the payload array.
sounds good, but for vhost-blk driver it can call get_config for the whole
virtio_blk_config space.
>
> > +
> > In QEMU the vhost-user message is implemented with the following struct:
> >
> > typedef struct VhostUserMsg {
> > @@ -129,6 +139,7 @@ typedef struct VhostUserMsg {
> > VhostUserMemory memory;
> > VhostUserLog log;
> > struct vhost_iotlb_msg iotlb;
> > + VhostUserConfig config;
> > };
> > } QEMU_PACKED VhostUserMsg;
> >
> > @@ -596,6 +607,34 @@ Master message types
> > and expect this message once (per VQ) during device configuration
> > (ie. before the master starts the VQ).
> >
> > + * VHOST_USER_GET_CONFIG
> > + Id: 24
> > + Equivalent ioctl: N/A
> > + Master payload: virtio device config space
> > +
> > + Submitted by the vhost-user master to fetch the contents of the
> > virtio
> > + device configuration space. The vhost-user master may cache the
> > contents
> > + to avoid repeated VHOST_USER_GET_CONFIG calls.
> > +
> > +* VHOST_USER_SET_CONFIG
> > + Id: 25
> > + Equivalent ioctl: N/A
> > + Master payload: virtio device config space
> > +
> > + Submitted by the vhost-user master when the Guest changes the virtio
> > + device configuration space and also can be used for live migration
> > + on the destination host.
>
> There might be security issues if the vhost slave cannot tell whether
> SET_CONFIG is coming from the guest driver or from the master process
> (live migration). Typically certain fields are read-only for the guest
> driver. Maybe those fields need to be set by the master after live
> migration.
>
> One way to solve this is adding a flags field to the message. A special
> flag can be used for live migration so the slave knows that this
> SET_CONFIG message is allowed to write to read-only fields.
>
Ok.
> It's also worth documenting that slaves MUST NOT accept SET_CONFIG for
> read-only configuration space fields unless the live migration bit is
> set. Hopefully this will remind implementors to think through the
> security issues.
