Re: [PATCH v13 6/9] gfxstream + rutabaga: add initial support for gfxstream

[Akihiko Odaki]

On 2023/09/22 16:42, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Practically there is very low chance to hit the bug. I think only
> > fuzzers and malicious actors will trigger it, and probably no one will
> > dare using virtio-gpu-rutabaga or virtio-gpu-gl in a security-sensitive
> > context.
>
> Well, this is exactly what Chrome OS does, albiet with crosvm rather
> than QEMU, right?

I think so, but QEMU's virtio-gpu-rutabaga and virtio-gpu-gl should be 
very different from crosvm in terms that it does not isolate the 
graphics stack into a separate process while I believe crosvm does so. 
Having the entire graphics stack in a VMM is a security nightmare; it 
means giving a complex shader compiler the highest privilege. We need to 
use vhost-user-gpu instead for process isolation.

Since we already have such a serious security hazard, I don't think we 
have to care much about security. But security approximately equals to 
reliability, which matters for virtio-gpu-rutabaga and virtio-gpu-gl 
too, so it's still nice to get the bug fixed.