Re: GPU-side memory protection landscape

2020-12-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
On 2020-11-30 3:07 p.m., Alexander Monakov wrote: My other concern is how easy it is to cause system instability or hangs by out-of-bounds writes from the GPU (via compute shaders or copy commands). In my experience of several years doing GPU computing with NVIDIA tech, I don't recall needing to

GPU-side memory protection landscape

2020-12-01 Thread Alexander Monakov
Hi, On #dri-devel Daniel invited me to chime in on the topic of clearing GPU memory handed to userspace, so here I go. I was asking how information leak from giving userspace dirty memory previously used by another process is not seen as a security issue. I was pointed to a recent thread, which o

Re: GPU-side memory protection landscape

2020-11-30 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 05:07:00PM +0300, Alexander Monakov wrote: > Hi, > > On #dri-devel Daniel invited me to chime in on the topic of clearing GPU > memory handed to userspace, so here I go. > > I was asking how information leak from giving userspace dirty memory > previously used by another p