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Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] hw: Forbid DMA write accesses to MMIO regions


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] hw: Forbid DMA write accesses to MMIO regions
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 17:46:39 +0200
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On 03/09/20 16:24, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:
>> [*] I do wonder about hardware-device-passthrough setups; I
>> don't think I would care to pass through an arbitrary device
>> to an untrusted guest...
> Hmm, I guess it would make sense to have a configurable option in KVM
> to isolate passthrough devices so they only can DMA to guest RAM...

Passthrough devices are always protected by the IOMMU, anything else
would be obviously insane^H^H^Hecure. :)

Paolo




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