Re: [PATCH v4 06/17] PCI: add SIOV and IMS capability detection

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Nov 09 2020 - 09:08:22 EST


On Mon, Nov 09 2020 at 12:14, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08 2020 at 15:58, Ashok Raj wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 07:47:24PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> But for SIOV devices there is no PASID filtering at the remap level since
>> interrupt messages don't carry PASID in the TLP.
>
> Why do we need PASID for VMM integrity?
>
> If the device sends a message then the remap unit will see the requester
> ID of the device and if the message it sends is not

That made me look at patch 4/17 which adds DEVMSI support to the
remap code:

> + case X86_IRQ_ALLOC_TYPE_DEV_MSI:
> + irte_prepare_msg(msg, index, sub_handle);
> break;

It does not setup any requester-id filter in IRTE. How is that supposed
to be correct?

Thanks,

tglx