Re: [Qemu-devel] security implications of caching with virtio pmem (was Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device)

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Mon Feb 11 2019 - 17:58:30 EST


On 11.02.19 23:29, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 02:29:46AM -0500, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
>> Hello Dave,
>> Are we okay with this?
>
> Sure.
>
> I'm not sure I agree with all the analysis presented, but, well, I
> haven't looked any deeper because I'm tired of being shouted at and
> being called argumentative for daring to ask hard questions about
> this topic....

I think if you have concerns, they should definitely be discussed.
Making people frustrated that review code is not what we want. Not at all.

I suggest that Pankaj properly documents what we found out so far about
security concerns and properly describes intended use cases and answers
other questions you had in the cover letter / documentation of the
follow up series.

Thanks Dave!

>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb