Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 9/9] intel-iommu: rework the page walk logic

2018-05-23 Thread Peter Xu
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 05:33:34PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:25:17PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote: > > SECURITY IMPLICATION: this patch will fix a potential small window that > > the DMA page table might be incomplete or invalid when the guest sends > > domain/context i

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 9/9] intel-iommu: rework the page walk logic

2018-05-23 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:25:17PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote: > SECURITY IMPLICATION: this patch will fix a potential small window that > the DMA page table might be incomplete or invalid when the guest sends > domain/context invalidations to a device. It can cause random DMA > errors for assigned dev

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 9/9] intel-iommu: rework the page walk logic

2018-05-18 Thread Peter Xu
SECURITY IMPLICATION: this patch will fix a potential small window that the DMA page table might be incomplete or invalid when the guest sends domain/context invalidations to a device. It can cause random DMA errors for assigned devices. This is a major change to the VT-d shadow page walking logi