[PATCH v2 06/17] iommu: Add iommu_fwspec_alloc/dealloc()

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at nvidia.com
Tue Nov 21 08:00:58 PST 2023


On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 03:47:48PM +0900, Hector Martin wrote:
> > Which is sensitive only to !NULL fwspec, and if EPROBE_DEFER is
> > returned fwspec will be freed and dev->iommu->fwspec will be NULL
> > here.
> > 
> > In the NULL case it does a 'bus probe' with a NULL fwspec and all the
> > fwspec drivers return immediately from their probe functions.
> > 
> > Did I miss something?
> 
> apple_dart is not a fwspec driver and doesn't do that :-)

It implements of_xlate that makes it a driver using the fwspec probe
path.

The issue is in apple-dart. Its logic for avoiding bus probe vs
fwspec probe is not correct.

It does:

static int apple_dart_of_xlate(struct device *dev, struct of_phandle_args *args)
{
 [..]
 	dev_iommu_priv_set(dev, cfg);


Then:

static struct iommu_device *apple_dart_probe_device(struct device *dev)
{
	struct apple_dart_master_cfg *cfg = dev_iommu_priv_get(dev);
	struct apple_dart_stream_map *stream_map;
	int i;

	if (!cfg)
		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);

Which leaks the cfg memory on rare error cases and wrongly allows the
driver to probe without a fwspec, which I think is what you are
hitting.

It should be

       if (!dev_iommu_fwspec_get(dev) || !cfg)
		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);

To ensure the driver never probes on the bus path.

Clearing the dev->iommu in the core code has the side effect of
clearing (and leaking) the cfg which would hide this issue.

Jason



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