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    virtio: acknowledge all features before access · 4fa59ede
    Michael S. Tsirkin authored
    The feature negotiation was designed in a way that
    makes it possible for devices to know which config
    fields will be accessed by drivers.
    
    This is broken since commit 404123c2 ("virtio: allow drivers to
    validate features") with fallout in at least block and net.  We have a
    partial work-around in commit 2f9a174f ("virtio: write back
    F_VERSION_1 before validate") which at least lets devices find out which
    format should config space have, but this is a partial fix: guests
    should not access config space without acknowledging features since
    otherwise we'll never be able to change the config space format.
    
    To fix, split finalize_features from virtio_finalize_features and
    call finalize_features with all feature bits before validation,
    and then - if validation changed any bits - once again after.
    
    Since virtio_finalize_features no longer writes out features
    rename it to virtio_features_ok - since that is what it does:
    checks that features are ok with the device.
    
    As a side effect, this also reduces the amount of hypervisor accesses -
    we now only acknowledge features once unless we are clearing any
    features when validating (which is uncommon).
    
    IRC I think that this was more or less always the intent in the spec but
    unfortunately the way the spec is worded does not say this explicitly, I
    plan to address this at the spec level, too.
    Acked-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Fixes: 404123c2 ("virtio: allow drivers to validate features")
    Fixes: 2f9a174f ("virtio: write back F_VERSION_1 before validate")
    Cc: "Halil Pasic" <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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