[v4,00/14] Restricted DMA

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Claire Chang Feb. 9, 2021, 6:21 a.m. UTC

This series implements mitigations for lack of DMA access control on
systems without an IOMMU, which could result in the DMA accessing the
system memory at unexpected times and/or unexpected addresses, possibly
leading to data leakage or corruption.

For example, we plan to use the PCI-e bus for Wi-Fi and that PCI-e bus is
not behind an IOMMU. As PCI-e, by design, gives the device full access to
system memory, a vulnerability in the Wi-Fi firmware could easily escalate
to a full system exploit (remote wifi exploits: [1a], [1b] that shows a
full chain of exploits; [2], [3]).

To mitigate the security concerns, we introduce restricted DMA. Restricted
DMA utilizes the existing swiotlb to bounce streaming DMA in and out of a
specially allocated region and does memory allocation from the same region.
The feature on its own provides a basic level of protection against the DMA
overwriting buffer contents at unexpected times. However, to protect
against general data leakage and system memory corruption, the system needs
to provide a way to restrict the DMA to a predefined memory region (this is
usually done at firmware level, e.g. MPU in ATF on some ARM platforms [4]).

[1a] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_4.html
[1b] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_11.html
[2] https://blade.tencent.com/en/advisories/qualpwn/
[3] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vulnerabilities-found-in-highly-popular-firmware-for-wifi-chips/
[4] https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/blob/master/plat/mediatek/mt8183/drivers/emi_mpu/emi_mpu.c#L132

Claire Chang (14):
  swiotlb: Remove external access to io_tlb_start
  swiotlb: Move is_swiotlb_buffer() to swiotlb.c
  swiotlb: Add struct swiotlb
  swiotlb: Refactor swiotlb_late_init_with_tbl
  swiotlb: Add DMA_RESTRICTED_POOL
  swiotlb: Add restricted DMA pool
  swiotlb: Update swiotlb API to gain a struct device argument
  swiotlb: Use restricted DMA pool if available
  swiotlb: Refactor swiotlb_tbl_{map,unmap}_single
  dma-direct: Add a new wrapper __dma_direct_free_pages()
  swiotlb: Add is_dev_swiotlb_force()
  swiotlb: Add restricted DMA alloc/free support.
  dt-bindings: of: Add restricted DMA pool
  of: Add plumbing for restricted DMA pool

 .../reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt       |  24 +
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/svm.c          |   4 +-
 drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c                     |  12 +-
 drivers/of/address.c                          |  25 +
 drivers/of/device.c                           |   3 +
 drivers/of/of_private.h                       |   5 +
 drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c                     |   4 +-
 include/linux/device.h                        |   4 +
 include/linux/swiotlb.h                       |  32 +-
 kernel/dma/Kconfig                            |  14 +
 kernel/dma/direct.c                           |  51 +-
 kernel/dma/direct.h                           |   8 +-
 kernel/dma/swiotlb.c                          | 636 ++++++++++++------
 13 files changed, 582 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)

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Claire Chang April 22, 2021, 8:20 a.m. UTC | #1

v5 here: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1416899/ to rebase
onto Christoph's swiotlb cleanups.