Re: [PATCH V5 4/6] vDPA: !FEATURES_OK should not block querying device config space

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Hi Michael,

I just noticed this patch got pulled to linux-next prematurely without getting consensus on code review, am not sure why. Hope it was just an oversight.

Unfortunately this introduced functionality regression to at least two cases so far as I see:

1. (bogus) VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NEGOTIATED_FEATURES are inadvertently exposed and displayed in "vdpa dev config show" before feature negotiation is done. Noted the corresponding features name shown in vdpa tool is called "negotiated_features" rather than "driver_features". I see in no way the intended change of the patch should break this user level expectation regardless of any spec requirement. Do you agree on this point?

2. There was also another implicit assumption that is broken by this patch. There could be a vdpa tool query of config via vdpa_dev_net_config_fill()->vdpa_get_config_unlocked() that races with the first vdpa_set_features() call from VMM e.g. QEMU. Since the S_FEATURES_OK blocking condition is removed, if the vdpa tool query occurs earlier than the first set_driver_features() call from VMM, the following code will treat the guest as legacy and then trigger an erroneous vdpa_set_features_unlocked(... , 0) call to the vdpa driver:

 374         /*
 375          * Config accesses aren't supposed to trigger before features are set.
 376          * If it does happen we assume a legacy guest.
 377          */
 378         if (!vdev->features_valid)
 379                 vdpa_set_features_unlocked(vdev, 0);
 380         ops->get_config(vdev, offset, buf, len);

Depending on vendor driver's implementation, L380 may either return invalid config data (or invalid endianness if on BE) or only config fields that are valid in legacy layout. What's more severe is that, vdpa tool query in theory shouldn't affect feature negotiation at all by making confusing calls to the device, but now it is possible with the patch. Fixing this would require more delicate work on the other paths involving the cf_lock reader/write semaphore.

Not sure what you plan to do next, post the fixes for both issues and get the community review? Or simply revert the patch in question? Let us know.

Thanks,
-Siwei


On 8/12/2022 3:44 AM, Zhu Lingshan wrote:
Users may want to query the config space of a vDPA device,
to choose a appropriate one for a certain guest. This means the
users need to read the config space before FEATURES_OK, and
the existence of config space contents does not depend on
FEATURES_OK.

The spec says:
The device MUST allow reading of any device-specific configuration
field before FEATURES_OK is set by the driver. This includes
fields which are conditional on feature bits, as long as those
feature bits are offered by the device.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lingshan.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c | 8 --------
  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
index 6eb3d972d802..bf312d9c59ab 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
@@ -855,17 +855,9 @@ vdpa_dev_config_fill(struct vdpa_device *vdev, struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid,
  {
  	u32 device_id;
  	void *hdr;
-	u8 status;
  	int err;
down_read(&vdev->cf_lock);
-	status = vdev->config->get_status(vdev);
-	if (!(status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FEATURES_OK)) {
-		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Features negotiation not completed");
-		err = -EAGAIN;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
  	hdr = genlmsg_put(msg, portid, seq, &vdpa_nl_family, flags,
  			  VDPA_CMD_DEV_CONFIG_GET);
  	if (!hdr) {

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