Re: [PATCH v5 net-next] From: Petr Vandrovec <petr@xxxxxxxxxx>

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Jan 27 2021 - 21:23:42 EST


On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 06:08:16PM -0800, Ronak Doshi wrote:
> buf_info structures in RX & TX queues are private driver data that
> do not need to be visible to the device. Although there is physical
> address and length in the queue descriptor that points to these
> structures, their layout is not standardized, and device never looks
> at them.
>
> So lets allocate these structures in non-DMA-able memory, and fill
> physical address as all-ones and length as zero in the queue
> descriptor.
>
> That should alleviate worries brought by Martin Radev in
> https://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/intel-wired-lan/Week-of-Mon-20210104/022829.html
> that malicious vmxnet3 device could subvert SVM/TDX guarantees.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Ronak

The Subject line is still messed up, it contains Petr name rather than
a subject.

Andrew