Message ID | 20211206015903.88687-1-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 12/6/21 9:58 AM, 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 1-9]: Detect DMA ownership conflicts during driver binding; > [PATCH 10-13]: Add security context management for assigned devices; > [PATCH 14-18]: Various cleanups. > > This is part one of three initial series for IOMMUFD: > * Move IOMMU Group security into the iommu layer > - Generic IOMMUFD implementation > - VFIO ability to consume IOMMUFD Thank you very much for reviewing my series. The v4 of this series has been posted here: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20211217063708.1740334-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com/ Best regards, baolu