[PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: realm: Use aliased addresses for device DMA to shared buffers

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Tue Feb 25 08:31:10 PST 2025


Hi Gavin

Thanks for the review.

On 25/02/2025 05:28, Gavin Shan wrote:
> On 2/25/25 3:24 PM, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> On 2/20/25 8:07 AM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>>> When a device performs DMA to a shared buffer using physical addresses,
>>> (without Stage1 translation), the device must use the "{I}PA address" 
>>> with the
>>> top bit set in Realm. This is to make sure that a trusted device will 
>>> be able
>>> to write to shared buffers as well as the protected buffers. Thus, a 
>>> Realm must
>>> always program the full address including the "protection" bit, like 
>>> AMD SME
>>> encryption bits.
>>>
>>> Enable this by providing arm64 specific 
>>> dma_{encrypted,decrypted,clear_encryption}
>>> helpers for Realms. Please note that the VMM needs to similarly make 
>>> sure that
>>> the SMMU Stage2 in the Non-secure world is setup accordingly to map 
>>> IPA at the
>>> unprotected alias.
>>>
>>> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe at linaro.org>
>>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
>>> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
>>> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
>>> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
>>> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky at amd.com>
>>> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at kernel.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
>>> ---
>>>   arch/arm64/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h b/arch/arm64/ 
>>> include/asm/mem_encrypt.h
>>> index f8f78f622dd2..aeda3bba255e 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h
>>> @@ -21,4 +21,26 @@ static inline bool force_dma_unencrypted(struct 
>>> device *dev)
>>>       return is_realm_world();
>>>   }
>>> +static inline dma_addr_t dma_decrypted(dma_addr_t daddr)
>>> +{
>>> +    if (is_realm_world())
>>> +        daddr |= prot_ns_shared;
>>> +    return daddr;
>>> +}
>>> +#define dma_decrypted dma_decrypted
>>> +
>>
>> There is an existing macro (PROT_NS_SHARED), which is preferred to return
>> prot_ns_shared or 0 depending on the availability of the realm 
>> capability.
>> However, that macro needs to be improved a bit so that it can be used 
>> here.
>> We need to return 0UL to match with the type of prot_ns_shared 
>> (unsigned long)
>>
>> -#define PROT_NS_SHARED         (is_realm_world() ? prot_ns_shared : 0)
>> +#define PROT_NS_SHARED         (is_realm_world() ? prot_ns_shared : 0UL)
>>
>> After that, the chunk of code can be as below.
>>
>>      return daddr | PROT_NS_SHARED;
>>
>>> +static inline dma_addr_t dma_encrypted(dma_addr_t daddr)
>>> +{
>>> +    if (is_realm_world())
>>> +        daddr &= prot_ns_shared - 1;
>>> +    return daddr;
>>> +}
>>> +#define dma_encrypted dma_encrypted
>>> +
>>
>> With PROT_NS_SHARED, it can become something like below. 
>> (PROT_NS_SHARED - 1)
>> is equivalent to -1UL, 'daddr & -1UL' should be fine since it does 
>> nothing.
>>
> 
> I meant (PROT_NS_SHARED - 1) is equivalent to -1UL when no realm capability
> is around :)

I didn't want this to be there ;-). But with Robin's comment, I think we
can revert back to PROT_NS_SHARED.

Cheers
Suzuki

> 
>>      return daddr & (PROT_NS_SHARED - 1);
>>
>>> +static inline dma_addr_t dma_clear_encryption(dma_addr_t daddr)
>>> +{
>>> +    return dma_encrypted(daddr);
>>> +}
>>> +#define dma_clear_encryption dma_clear_encryption
>>> +
>>>   #endif    /* __ASM_MEM_ENCRYPT_H */
> 
> Thanks,
> Gavin
> 




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