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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/2] virito-pci: PASID support
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 01:57:53PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > Hi All: > > This series tries to add PASID support for virtio-pci to allow the > virtqueue to use PASID TLP prefix for PCI transactions. This will be > useful for future work like, queue assignment, virtqueue > virtualization and presenting multiple vDPA devices with a single PCI > device. > > Since we're short of the space for the PCI capabilities, the PCI > extended capability for virtio structure is introduced that allows the > PASID configuration structure to use. > > A prototype is implemented with emulated virtio-pci device in [1]. A > test driver is implemented in [2]. > > Please review. I don't know the security model for PASIDs. My guess is that PASIDs can be bruteforced so we must trust the driver (it can assign PASIDs to virtqueue groups) and we must prevent untrusted applications from setting PASIDs on virtqueues. Is that correct? Thanks, Stefan
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