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author | Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> | 2025-07-16 07:07:44 -0400 |
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committer | Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> | 2025-07-16 07:07:44 -0400 |
commit | f79afdf7dafd5fc9551c002de0f4139af4e9f5aa (patch) | |
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Merge tag 'pull-vfio-20250715' of https://github.com/legoater/qemu into staging
vfio queue:
* Fixed vfio-user issues reported by Coverity
* Tweaked VFIO migration with multifd to support aarch64
* Introduced a property to override a device PCI class code
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* tag 'pull-vfio-20250715' of https://github.com/legoater/qemu:
vfio/migration: Max in-flight VFIO device state buffers size limit
vfio/migration: Add x-migration-load-config-after-iter VFIO property
vfio/pci: Introduce x-pci-class-code option
hw/vfio-user: fix use of uninitialized variable
hw/vfio-user: wait for proxy close correctly
hw/vfio: fix region fd initialization
hw/vfio-user: add Cédric Le Goater as a maintainer
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/migration/vfio.rst | 19 |
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diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/vfio.rst b/docs/devel/migration/vfio.rst index 2d8e5ca..0790e50 100644 --- a/docs/devel/migration/vfio.rst +++ b/docs/devel/migration/vfio.rst @@ -247,3 +247,22 @@ The multifd VFIO device state transfer is controlled by "x-migration-multifd-transfer" VFIO device property. This property defaults to AUTO, which means that VFIO device state transfer via multifd channels is attempted in configurations that otherwise support it. + +Since the target QEMU needs to load device state buffers in-order it needs to +queue incoming buffers until they can be loaded into the device. +This means that a malicious QEMU source could theoretically cause the target +QEMU to allocate unlimited amounts of memory for such buffers-in-flight. + +The "x-migration-max-queued-buffers-size" property allows capping the total size +of these VFIO device state buffers queued at the destination. + +Because a malicious QEMU source causing OOM on the target is not expected to be +a realistic threat in most of VFIO live migration use cases and the right value +depends on the particular setup by default this queued buffers size limit is +disabled by setting it to UINT64_MAX. + +Some host platforms (like ARM64) require that VFIO device config is loaded only +after all iterables were loaded, during non-iterables loading phase. +Such interlocking is controlled by "x-migration-load-config-after-iter" VFIO +device property, which in its default setting (AUTO) does so only on platforms +that actually require it. |