virtio: acknowledge all features before access

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 404123c2db79 ("virtio: allow drivers to
validate features") with fallout in at least block and net.  We have a
partial work-around in commit 2f9a174f918e ("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: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 404123c2db79 ("virtio: allow drivers to validate features")
Fixes: 2f9a174f918e ("virtio: write back F_VERSION_1 before validate")
Cc: "Halil Pasic" <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
index 4d107ad31149..dafdc7f48c01 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_config.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
@@ -64,8 +64,9 @@ struct virtio_shm_region {
  *	Returns the first 64 feature bits (all we currently need).
  * @finalize_features: confirm what device features we'll be using.
  *	vdev: the virtio_device
- *	This gives the final feature bits for the device: it can change
+ *	This sends the driver feature bits to the device: it can change
  *	the dev->feature bits if it wants.
+ * Note: despite the name this can be called any number of times.
  *	Returns 0 on success or error status
  * @bus_name: return the bus name associated with the device (optional)
  *	vdev: the virtio_device