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    xen/MSI-X: limit error messages · b38ec5ee
    Jan Beulich 提交于
    Limit error messages resulting from bad guest behavior to avoid allowing
    the guest to cause the control domain's disk to fill.
    
    The first message in pci_msix_write() can simply be deleted, as this
    is indeed bad guest behavior, but such out of bounds writes don't
    really need to be logged.
    
    The second one is more problematic, as there guest behavior may only
    appear to be wrong: For one, the old logic didn't take the mask-all bit
    into account. And then this shouldn't depend on host device state (i.e.
    the host may have masked the entry without the guest having done so).
    Plus these writes shouldn't be dropped even when an entry is unmasked.
    Instead, if they can't be made take effect right away, they should take
    effect on the next unmasking or enabling operation - the specification
    explicitly describes such caching behavior. Until we can validly drop
    the message (implementing such caching/latching behavior), issue the
    message just once per MSI-X table entry.
    
    Note that the log message in pci_msix_read() similar to the one being
    removed here is not an issue: "addr" being of unsigned type, and the
    maximum size of the MSI-X table being 32k, entry_nr simply can't be
    negative and hence the conditonal guarding issuing of the message will
    never be true.
    
    This is XSA-130.
    Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
    Reviewed-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
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