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[for-5.2 v4 09/10] host trust limitation: Alter virtio default propertie


From: David Gibson
Subject: [for-5.2 v4 09/10] host trust limitation: Alter virtio default properties for protected guests
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:57:43 +1000

The default behaviour for virtio devices is not to use the platforms normal
DMA paths, but instead to use the fact that it's running in a hypervisor
to directly access guest memory.  That doesn't work if the guest's memory
is protected from hypervisor access, such as with AMD's SEV or POWER's PEF.

So, if a host trust limitation mechanism is enabled, then apply the
iommu_platform=on option so it will go through normal DMA mechanisms.
Those will presumably have some way of marking memory as shared with the
hypervisor or hardware so that DMA will work.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
 hw/core/machine.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c
index b599b0ba65..2a723bf07b 100644
--- a/hw/core/machine.c
+++ b/hw/core/machine.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 #include "hw/mem/nvdimm.h"
 #include "migration/vmstate.h"
 #include "exec/host-trust-limitation.h"
+#include "hw/virtio/virtio.h"
+#include "hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h"
 
 GlobalProperty hw_compat_5_0[] = {
     { "virtio-balloon-device", "page-poison", "false" },
@@ -1161,6 +1163,15 @@ void machine_run_board_init(MachineState *machine)
          * areas.
          */
         machine_set_mem_merge(OBJECT(machine), false, &error_abort);
+
+        /*
+         * Virtio devices can't count on directly accessing guest
+         * memory, so they need iommu_platform=on to use normal DMA
+         * mechanisms.  That requires disabling legacy virtio support
+         * for virtio pci devices
+         */
+        object_register_sugar_prop(TYPE_VIRTIO_PCI, "disable-legacy", "on");
+        object_register_sugar_prop(TYPE_VIRTIO_DEVICE, "iommu_platform", "on");
     }
 
     machine_class->init(machine);
-- 
2.26.2




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