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Michael S. Tsirkin ff63198850 Revert "virtio-blk: Add validation for block size in config space"
It turns out that access to config space before completing the feature
negotiation is broken for big endian guests at least with QEMU hosts up
to 6.1 inclusive.  This affects any device that accesses config space in
the validate callback: at the moment that is virtio-net with
VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU but since 82e89ea077 ("virtio-blk: Add validation for
block size in config space") that also started affecting virtio-blk with
VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE. Further, unlike VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU which is off by
default on QEMU, VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE is on by default, which resulted
in lots of people not being able to boot VMs on BE.

The spec is very clear that what we are doing is legal so QEMU needs to
be fixed, but given it's been broken for so many years and no one
noticed, we need to give QEMU a bit more time before applying this.

Further, this patch is incomplete (does not check blk size is a power
of two) and it duplicates the logic from nbd.

Revert for now, and we'll reapply a cleaner logic in the next release.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 82e89ea077 ("virtio-blk: Add validation for block size in config space")
Cc: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2021-10-13 08:35:36 -04:00
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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.