Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-blkfront: remove type check from blkfront_setup_discard

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 13, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:

> On 01/13/2014 04:30 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >>Similarly, if xenbug_gather("discard-secure") fails, I think the code will
> >>assume that secure discard has not been requested. I don't know what
> >>security implications this will have but it sounds bad to me.
> >There are no security implications, if the backend does not advertise it
> >then its not present.
> 
> Right. But my questions was what if the backend does advertise it and wants
> the frontent to use it but xenbus_gather() in the frontend fails. Do we want
> to silently continue without discard-secure? Is this safe?

The frontend can not know that the backend advertised discard-secure
because the frontend just failed to read the property which indicates
discard-secure should be enabled.

Olaf

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