[PATCH v5 3/5] iommu: Add iommu_driver_get_domain_for_dev() helper
Jason Gunthorpe
jgg at nvidia.com
Mon Nov 24 11:16:48 PST 2025
On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 09:41:20AM -0800, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> Hi Baolu,
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 01:58:51PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
> > On 11/11/25 13:12, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > > +/**
> > > + * iommu_get_domain_for_dev() - Return the DMA API domain pointer
> > > + * @dev - Device to query
> > > + *
> > > + * This function can be called within a driver bound to dev. The returned
> > > + * pointer is valid for the lifetime of the bound driver.
> > > + *
> > > + * It should not be called by drivers with driver_managed_dma = true.
> >
> > "driver_managed_dma != true" means the driver will use the default
> > domain allocated by the iommu core during iommu probe.
>
> Hmm, I am not very sure. Jason's remarks pointed out that There
> is an exception in host1x_client_iommu_detach():
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250924191055.GJ2617119@nvidia.com/
>
> Where the group->domain could be NULL, i.e. not attached to the
> default domain?
That is impossible these days, the group->domain is always something.
For host1x it changes the domain and ignores the driver_managed_dma
safety mechanism to do it, so it is kind of broken.
> > > + */
> > > struct iommu_domain *iommu_get_domain_for_dev(struct device *dev)
> > > {
> > > /* Caller must be a probed driver on dev */
> > > @@ -2225,10 +2234,29 @@ struct iommu_domain *iommu_get_domain_for_dev(struct device *dev)
> > > if (!group)
> > > return NULL;
> > > + lockdep_assert_not_held(&group->mutex);
> >
> > ...
> > if (WARN_ON(!dev->driver || !group->owner_cnt || group->owner))
> > return NULL;
>
> With that, could host1x_client_iommu_detach() trigger WARN_ON?
I don't really know but I strongly suspect that host1x has a NULL
dev->driver in some cases.
I think the best you could do is detect that a driver is bound and
that driver_managed_dma != true, host1x should still be OK with it,
but in practice it only effects VFIO.
Jason
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