[PATCH v5 5/9] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Refactor write_ctx_desc

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at nvidia.com
Tue Aug 15 05:56:23 PDT 2023


On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 08:36:55PM +0800, Michael Shavit wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 8:30 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 08:03:40PM +0800, Michael Shavit wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 7:38 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 01:20:04PM +0800, Michael Shavit wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 11:39 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Actually, I don't think this even works as nothing on the PASID path
> > > > > > adds to the list that arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc_devices() iterates over ??
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Then the remaining two calls:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > arm_smmu_share_asid(struct mm_struct *mm, u16 asid)
> > > > > >         arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc_devices(smmu_domain, 0, cd);
> > > > > >
> > > > > >         This is OK only if the sketchy assumption that the CD
> > > > > >         we extracted for a conflicting ASID is not asigned to a PASID.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > static void arm_smmu_mm_release(struct mmu_notifier *mn, struct mm_struct *mm)
> > > > > >         arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc_devices(smmu_domain, mm->pasid, &quiet_cd);
> > > > > >
> > > > > >         This doesn't work because we didn't add the master to the list
> > > > > >         during __arm_smmu_sva_bind and this path is expressly working
> > > > > >         on the PASID binds, not the RID binds.
> > > > >
> > > > > Actually it is working on the RID attached domain (as returned by
> > > > > iommu_get_domain_for_dev() at sva_bind time) not the SVA domain
> > > > > here...
> > > >
> > > > That can't be right, the purpose of that call and arm_smmu_mm_release is to
> > > > disable the PASID that is about the UAF the mm's page table.
> > > >
> > > > Jason
> > >
> > > For the sake of this message, let's call "primary domain" whatever RID
> > > domain was attached to a master at the time set_dev_pasid() was called
> > > on that master. That RID domain is locked in while SVA is enabled and
> > > cannot be detached.
> > >
> > > The arm-smmu-v3-sva.c implementation creates a mapping between an SVA
> > > domain and this primary domain (through the sva domain's mm). In
> > > arm_smmu_mm_release, the primary domain is looked up and
> > > arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc() is called on all masters that this domain is
> > > attached to.
> >
> > My question is still the same - how does arm_smmu_mm_release update the
> > Contex descriptor table entry for the *PASID*
> >
> > The RID on PASID 0 hasn't change and doesn't need updating.
> >
> > Jason
> 
> arm_smmu_mm_release looks-up the CD table(s) to write using the
> primary domain's device list, and finds the index into those CD
> table(s) to write to using mm->pasid.

Oh.. I don't think I caught that detail that at this point the
arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc_devices() argument must always be the rid
domain. Maybe add a comment to describe that? And lets try to undo
that later :(

Thanks,
Jason



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