Re: [Xen-devel] [v7][RFC][PATCH 01/13] xen: RMRR fix

["Chen, Tiejun" <tiejun.chen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2014/10/28 17:39, Razvan Cojocaru wrote:
> On 10/28/2014 11:34 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > On 28.10.14 at 09:36, <tiejun.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 2014/10/27 17:41, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > > > On 27.10.14 at 03:00, <tiejun.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > n 2014/10/24 18:52, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On 24.10.14 at 09:34, <tiejun.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > > 5. Before we take real device assignment, any access to RMRR may issue
> > > > > > > ept_handle_violation because of p2m_access_n. Then we just call
> > > > > > > update_guest_eip() to return.
> > > > > > I.e. ignore such accesses? Why?
> > > > > Yeah. This illegal access isn't allowed but its enough to ignore that
> > > > > without further protection or punishment.
> > > > >
> > > > > Or what procedure should be concerned here based on your opinion?
> > > > If the access is illegal, inject a fault to the guest or kill it, unless you
> > > Kill means we will crash domain? Seems its radical, isn't it? So I guess
> > > its better to inject a fault.
> > >
> > > But what kind of fault you prefer currently?
> > #GP (but this being arbitrary is why simply killing the guest is another
> > option to consider).
> >
> > > > > > > Now in our case we add a rule:
> > > > > > >     - if p2m_access_n is set we also set this mapping.
> > > > > > Does that not conflict with eventual use mem-access makes of this
> > > > > > type?
> > > Do you mean what will happen after we reset these ranges as
> > > p2m_access_rw? We already reserve these ranges guest shouldn't access
> > > these range actually. And a guest still maliciously access them, that
> > > device may not work well.
> > mem-access is functionality used by a control domain, not the domain
> > itself. You need to make sure that neither your use of p2m_access_n
> > can confuse the mem-access code, nor that their use can confuse you.
> Jan makes a very good point. If a guest, as you say, maliciously
Yes, he pointed out something I don't consider but really need to concern.

> accesses any of the guest's pages, a dom0 application (working via the
> mem_access mechanism) might want to know about it (regardless of what
> the guest itself can and cannot do). :)
>
> So please, make sure that no such application will get confused by the
> changes.
Thanks for your further comments.

Tiejun

> Thanks,
> Razvan
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