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virtio: disable notification hardening by default
We try to harden virtio device notifications in 8b4ec69d7e ("virtio:
harden vring IRQ"). It works with the assumption that the driver or
core can properly call virtio_device_ready() at the right
place. Unfortunately, this seems to be not true and uncover various
bugs of the existing drivers, mainly the issue of using
virtio_device_ready() incorrectly.
So let's add a Kconfig option and disable it by default. It gives
us time to fix the drivers and then we can consider re-enabling it.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220622012940.21441-1-jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
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@@ -29,6 +29,19 @@ menuconfig VIRTIO_MENU
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if VIRTIO_MENU
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config VIRTIO_HARDEN_NOTIFICATION
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bool "Harden virtio notification"
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help
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Enable this to harden the device notifications and suppress
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those that happen at a time where notifications are illegal.
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Experimental: Note that several drivers still have bugs that
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may cause crashes or hangs when correct handling of
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notifications is enforced; depending on the subset of
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drivers and devices you use, this may or may not work.
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If unsure, say N.
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config VIRTIO_PCI
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tristate "PCI driver for virtio devices"
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depends on PCI
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