Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kernel vfio: PCI ROM size calculation

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 14/05/12 12:55, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 16:50 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> The original code calculated the real size of the ROM and passed it to
>> QEMU which tried to do pci_register_bar and failed with error message
>> "ERROR: PCI region size must be pow2".
>>
>> The example card is PCIe Intel E1000E with the ROM size 0x9c00.
>>
>> pci_resource_len seems to be a proper solution.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c |    9 +++------
>>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
>> index b2f1f3a..6d4a783 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
>> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
>> @@ -234,12 +234,9 @@ static long vfio_pci_ioctl(void *device_data,
>>                       * this gives the user an easy way to determine whether
>>                       * there's anything here w/o trying to read it. */
> 
> This is actually intentional, but maybe isn't the best way to handle it
> anymore.  The cut-off comment above reads:
> 
>         /* Report the actual ROM size instead of the BAR size,
>          * this gives the user an easy way to determine whether
>          * there's anything here w/o trying to read it. */
> 
> At the time I added that though, I think we still had a separate ioctl
> to get the BAR size, so one gave the real size, the other the BAR size.
> Do we care to expose that ROMs have real size, maybe zero, that doesn't
> necessarily match pci_resource_len()?  Thanks,


The guest will still see aligned ROM BAR (not real one) and may try to read 
behind the real end of
ROM, and it is allowed while it is still within the BAR, right?


> 
> Alex
> 
>>                      if (info.index == VFIO_PCI_ROM_REGION_INDEX) {
>> -                            void __iomem *io;
>> -                            size_t size;
>> -
>> -                            io = pci_map_rom(pdev, &size);
>> -                            info.size = io ? size : 0;
>> -                            pci_unmap_rom(pdev, io);
>> +                            info.size = pci_resource_len(pdev,
>> +                                            PCI_ROM_RESOURCE);
>> +                            info.flags |= VFIO_PCI_ROM_REGION_INDEX;
>>                      } else if (flags & IORESOURCE_MEM) {
>>                              info.size = pci_resource_len(pdev, info.index);
>>                              info.flags |= (VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_WRITE |
>>
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Alexey