Re: [PATCH 0/5] vfio/pci: add blocklist and disable qat

2020-07-10 Thread Giovanni Cabiddu
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 04:48:07PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 01:42:09PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 12:02:57PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote: > > > This patchset defines a blocklist of devices in the vfio-pci module and > > > adds > >

Re: [PATCH 0/5] vfio/pci: add blocklist and disable qat

2020-07-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 01:42:09PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 12:02:57PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote: > > This patchset defines a blocklist of devices in the vfio-pci module and adds > > the current generation of Intel(R) QuickAssist devices to it as they are > > no

Re: [PATCH 0/5] vfio/pci: add blocklist and disable qat

2020-07-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 12:02:57PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote: > This patchset defines a blocklist of devices in the vfio-pci module and adds > the current generation of Intel(R) QuickAssist devices to it as they are > not designed to run in an untrusted environment. How can they not be safe?

[PATCH 0/5] vfio/pci: add blocklist and disable qat

2020-07-01 Thread Giovanni Cabiddu
This patchset defines a blocklist of devices in the vfio-pci module and adds the current generation of Intel(R) QuickAssist devices to it as they are not designed to run in an untrusted environment. By default, if a device is in the blocklist, the probe of vfio-pci fails. If a user wants to use a