[PATCH] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Set GBPA to abort all transactions

Goel, Sameer sgoel at codeaurora.org
Wed Apr 11 08:58:05 PDT 2018



On 3/28/2018 9:00 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2018-03-28 15:39, Timur Tabi wrote:
>> From: Sameer Goel <sgoel at codeaurora.org>
>>
>> Set SMMU_GBPA to abort all incoming translations during the SMMU reset
>> when SMMUEN==0.
>>
>> This prevents a race condition where a stray DMA from the crashed primary
>> kernel can try to access an IOVA address as an invalid PA when SMMU is
>> disabled during reset in the crash kernel.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sameer Goel <sgoel at codeaurora.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
>> index 3f2f1fc68b52..c04a89310c59 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
>> @@ -2458,6 +2458,18 @@ static int arm_smmu_device_reset(struct
>> arm_smmu_device *smmu, bool bypass)
>>      if (reg & CR0_SMMUEN)
>>          dev_warn(smmu->dev, "SMMU currently enabled! Resetting...\n");
>>
>> +    /*
>> +     * Abort all incoming translations. This can happen in a kdump case
>> +     * where SMMU is initialized when a prior DMA is pending. Just
>> +     * disabling the SMMU in this case might result in writes to invalid
>> +     * PAs.
>> +     */
>> +    ret = arm_smmu_update_gbpa(smmu, 1, GBPA_ABORT);
>> +    if (ret) {
>> +        dev_err(smmu->dev, "GBPA not responding to update\n");
>> +        return ret;
>> +    }
>> +
>>      ret = arm_smmu_device_disable(smmu);
>>      if (ret)
>>          return ret;
> 
> A tangential question: can we reliably detect that the SMMU already has valid mappings, which would indicate that we're in a pretty bad shape already by the time we set that bit? For all we know, memory could have been corrupted long before we hit this point, and this patch barely narrows the window of opportunity.
:) Yes that is correct. This only covers the kdump scenario. Trying to get some reliability when booting up the crash kernel. The system is already in a bad state. I don't think that this will happen in a normal scenario. But please point me to the GICv3 change and I'll have a look.
Thanks,
Sameer 
> 
> At the very least, we should emit a warning and taint the kernel (we've recently added such measures to the GICv3 driver).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         M.

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