[PATCH rc v4 2/5] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Implement is_attach_deferred() for kdump

Nicolin Chen nicolinc at nvidia.com
Wed Apr 29 00:20:50 PDT 2026


Though the kdump kernel adopts the crashed kernel's stream table, the iommu
core will still try to attach each probed device to a default domain, which
overwrites the adopted STE and breaks in-flight DMA from that device.

Implement an is_attach_deferred() callback to prevent this. For each device
that has STE.V=1 and STE.Cfg!=Abort in the adopted table, defer the default
domain attachment, until the device driver explicitly requests it.

Fixes: b63b3439b856 ("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Abort all transactions if SMMU is enabled in kdump kernel")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v6.12+
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
index fbc0fa6f182c6..27b84688bcc99 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
@@ -4309,6 +4309,29 @@ static void arm_smmu_remove_master(struct arm_smmu_master *master)
 	kfree(master->build_invs);
 }
 
+static bool arm_smmu_is_attach_deferred(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct arm_smmu_master *master = dev_iommu_priv_get(dev);
+	struct arm_smmu_device *smmu = master->smmu;
+	int i;
+
+	if (!(smmu->options & ARM_SMMU_OPT_KDUMP_ADOPT))
+		return false;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < master->num_streams; i++) {
+		struct arm_smmu_ste *ste =
+			arm_smmu_get_step_for_sid(smmu, master->streams[i].id);
+		u64 ent0 = le64_to_cpu(ste->data[0]);
+
+		/* Defer only when there might be in-flight DMAs */
+		if ((ent0 & STRTAB_STE_0_V) &&
+		    FIELD_GET(STRTAB_STE_0_CFG, ent0) != STRTAB_STE_0_CFG_ABORT)
+			return true;
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 static struct iommu_device *arm_smmu_probe_device(struct device *dev)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -4471,6 +4494,7 @@ static const struct iommu_ops arm_smmu_ops = {
 	.hw_info		= arm_smmu_hw_info,
 	.domain_alloc_sva       = arm_smmu_sva_domain_alloc,
 	.domain_alloc_paging_flags = arm_smmu_domain_alloc_paging_flags,
+	.is_attach_deferred	= arm_smmu_is_attach_deferred,
 	.probe_device		= arm_smmu_probe_device,
 	.release_device		= arm_smmu_release_device,
 	.device_group		= arm_smmu_device_group,
-- 
2.43.0




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