Message ID | 20211217063708.1740334-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | Fix BUG_ON in vfio_iommu_group_notifier() | expand |
On 12/17/21 2:36 PM, Lu Baolu wrote: > Hi folks, > > The iommu group is the minimal isolation boundary for DMA. Devices in > a group can access each other's MMIO registers via peer to peer DMA > and also need share the same I/O address space. > > Once the I/O address space is assigned to user control it is no longer > available to the dma_map* API, which effectively makes the DMA API > non-working. > > Second, userspace can use DMA initiated by a device that it controls > to access the MMIO spaces of other devices in the group. This allows > userspace to indirectly attack any kernel owned device and it's driver. > > Therefore groups must either be entirely under kernel control or > userspace control, never a mixture. Unfortunately some systems have > problems with the granularity of groups and there are a couple of > important exceptions: > > - pci_stub allows the admin to block driver binding on a device and > make it permanently shared with userspace. Since PCI stub does not > do DMA it is safe, however the admin must understand that using > pci_stub allows userspace to attack whatever device it was bound > it. > > - PCI bridges are sometimes included in groups. Typically PCI bridges > do not use DMA, and generally do not have MMIO regions. > > Generally any device that does not have any MMIO registers is a > possible candidate for an exception. > > Currently vfio adopts a workaround to detect violations of the above > restrictions by monitoring the driver core BOUND event, and hardwiring > the above exceptions. Since there is no way for vfio to reject driver > binding at this point, BUG_ON() is triggered if a violation is > captured (kernel driver BOUND event on a group which already has some > devices assigned to userspace). Aside from the bad user experience > this opens a way for root userspace to crash the kernel, even in high > integrity configurations, by manipulating the module binding and > triggering the BUG_ON. > > This series solves this problem by making the user/kernel ownership a > core concept at the IOMMU layer. The driver core enforces kernel > ownership while drivers are bound and violations now result in a error > codes during probe, not BUG_ON failures. > > Patch partitions: > [PATCH 1-4]: Detect DMA ownership conflicts during driver binding; > [PATCH 5-8]: Add security context management for assigned devices; > [PATCH 9-13]: Various cleanups. > > This is also part one of three initial series for IOMMUFD: > * Move IOMMU Group security into the iommu layer > - Generic IOMMUFD implementation > - VFIO ability to consume IOMMUFD > > Change log: > v1: initial post > - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20211115020552.2378167-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com/ > > v2: > - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20211128025051.355578-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com/ > > - Move kernel dma ownership auto-claiming from driver core to bus > callback. [Greg/Christoph/Robin/Jason] > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20211115020552.2378167-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com/T/#m153706912b770682cb12e3c28f57e171aa1f9d0c > > - Code and interface refactoring for iommu_set/release_dma_owner() > interfaces. [Jason] > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20211115020552.2378167-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com/T/#mea70ed8e4e3665aedf32a5a0a7db095bf680325e > > - [NEW]Add new iommu_attach/detach_device_shared() interfaces for > multiple devices group. [Robin/Jason] > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20211115020552.2378167-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com/T/#mea70ed8e4e3665aedf32a5a0a7db095bf680325e > > - [NEW]Use iommu_attach/detach_device_shared() in drm/tegra drivers. > > - Refactoring and description refinement. > > v3: > - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20211206015903.88687-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com/ > > - Rename bus_type::dma_unconfigure to bus_type::dma_cleanup. [Greg] > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/c3230ace-c878-39db-1663-2b752ff5384e@linux.intel.com/T/#m6711e041e47cb0cbe3964fad0a3466f5ae4b3b9b > > - Avoid _platform_dma_configure for platform_bus_type::dma_configure. > [Greg] > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/c3230ace-c878-39db-1663-2b752ff5384e@linux.intel.com/T/#m43fc46286611aa56a5c0eeaad99d539e5519f3f6 > > - Patch "0012-iommu-Add-iommu_at-de-tach_device_shared-for-mult.patch" > and "0018-drm-tegra-Use-the-iommu-dma_owner-mechanism.patch" have > been tested by Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>. > > v4: > - Remove unnecessary tegra->domain chech in the tegra patch. (Jason) > - Remove DMA_OWNER_NONE. (Joerg) > - Change refcount to unsigned int. (Christoph) > - Move mutex lock into group set_dma_owner functions. (Christoph) > - Add kernel doc for iommu_attach/detach_domain_shared(). (Christoph) > - Move dma auto-claim into driver core. (Jason/Christoph) Thank you very much for the review comments. A new version has been posted. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20220104015644.2294354-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com/ Best regards, baolu