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Tsirkin" To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" , Carlos Bilbao , Hari Mishal , Jason Wang , Xuan Zhuo , Eugenio =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= , virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, elena.reshetova@intel.com, huster@cs.uni-goettingen.de, mhollick@seemoo.de, jiska.classen@hpi.de Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] virtio-mem: validate device-reported block size Message-ID: <20260723194822-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20260717061901-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <2026071724-asleep-pedigree-ea54@gregkh> <20260717065219-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <2026071759-thermal-synopsis-7568@gregkh> <20260717085838-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <1fe328d1-edf9-4e72-a145-be74ede20e60@gmail.com> <2026071803-passage-dares-8240@gregkh> <9569e577-aa82-4642-b9d9-fd496fc12849@kernel.org> <2026072036-outburst-rebel-c71b@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2026072036-outburst-rebel-c71b@gregkh> On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 10:28:03AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Seriously, I'm trying to figure out what you all care about here and > what exactly the threat model you want this driver to work in, and I'm > getting conflicting answers. And yet it's documented in the kernel tree. The threat model for confidential includes everything that can lead to information disclosure but excludes DoS attacks. It's probably confusing because it's different from USB, where you really do not want a usb device to crash kernel. -- MST