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Halil Pasic dba8834bae virtio: write back F_VERSION_1 before validate 
commit 2f9a174f91 upstream.

The virtio specification virtio-v1.1-cs01 states: "Transitional devices
MUST detect Legacy drivers by detecting that VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 has not
been acknowledged by the driver."  This is exactly what QEMU as of 6.1
has done relying solely on VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 for detecting that.

However, the specification also says: "... the driver MAY read (but MUST
NOT write) the device-specific configuration fields to check that it can
support the device ..." before setting FEATURES_OK.

In that case, any transitional device relying solely on
VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 for detecting legacy drivers will return data in
legacy format.  In particular, this implies that it is in big endian
format for big endian guests. This naturally confuses the driver which
expects little endian in the modern mode.

It is probably a good idea to amend the spec to clarify that
VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 can only be relied on after the feature negotiation
is complete. Before validate callback existed, config space was only
read after FEATURES_OK. However, we already have two regressions, so
let's address this here as well.

The regressions affect the VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU feature of virtio-net and
the VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE feature of virtio-blk for BE guests when
virtio 1.0 is used on both sides. The latter renders virtio-blk unusable
with DASD backing, because things simply don't work with the default.
See Fixes tags for relevant commits.

For QEMU, we can work around the issue by writing out the feature bits
with VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 bit set.  We (ab)use the finalize_features
config op for this. This isn't enough to address all vhost devices since
these do not get the features until FEATURES_OK, however it looks like
the affected devices actually never handled the endianness for legacy
mode correctly, so at least that's not a regression.

No devices except virtio net and virtio blk seem to be affected.

Long term the right thing to do is to fix the hypervisors.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #v4.11
Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 82e89ea077 ("virtio-blk: Add validation for block size in config space")
Fixes: fe36cbe067 ("virtio_net: clear MTU when out of range")
Reported-by: markver@us.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211011053921.1198936-1-pasic@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-10-20 11:40:14 +02:00
arch x86/resctrl: Free the ctrlval arrays when domain_setup_mon_state() fails 2021-10-20 11:40:13 +02:00
block Revert "block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges" 2021-10-06 15:42:34 +02:00
certs certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key 2021-09-15 09:47:29 +02:00
crypto crypto: shash - avoid comparing pointers to exported functions under CFI 2021-07-14 16:53:13 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: mtd: gpmc: Fix the ECC bytes vs. OOB bytes equation 2021-09-22 12:26:43 +02:00
drivers virtio: write back F_VERSION_1 before validate 2021-10-20 11:40:14 +02:00
fs btrfs: check for error when looking up inode during dir entry replay 2021-10-20 11:40:13 +02:00
include sched: Always inline is_percpu_thread() 2021-10-17 10:42:34 +02:00
init kbuild: add CONFIG_LD_IS_LLD 2021-06-30 08:47:44 -04:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel bpf: Fix integer overflow in prealloc_elems_and_freelist() 2021-10-13 10:08:18 +02:00
lib Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 2021-09-26 14:07:10 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/memory_hotplug: use "unsigned long" for PFN in zone_for_pfn_range() 2021-09-22 12:26:43 +02:00
net mac80211: check return value of rhashtable_init 2021-10-17 10:42:34 +02:00
samples samples: bpf: Fix tracex7 error raised on the missing argument 2021-09-22 12:26:30 +02:00
scripts nds32/ftrace: Fix Error: invalid operands (*UND* and *UND* sections) for `^' 2021-10-20 11:40:12 +02:00
security apparmor: remove duplicate macro list_entry_is_head() 2021-09-26 14:07:06 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix the mic type detection issue for ASUS G551JW 2021-10-20 11:40:12 +02:00
tools tools/vm/page-types: remove dependency on opt_file for idle page tracking 2021-10-09 14:39:50 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
virt KVM: do not shrink halt_poll_ns below grow_start 2021-10-09 14:39:50 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes 2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM 2020-08-26 10:40:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.154 2021-10-17 10:42:35 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.