[PATCH v10 1/8] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add a missing dma_wmb() for hitless STE update
Nicolin Chen
nicolinc at nvidia.com
Mon Jan 26 19:09:12 PST 2026
When writing a new (previously invalid) valid IOPTE to a page table, then
installing the page table into an STE hitlesslessly (e.g. in S2TTB field),
there is a window before an STE invalidation, where the page-table may be
accessed by SMMU but the new IOPTE is still siting in the CPU cache.
This could occur when we allocate an iommu_domain and immediately install
it hitlessly, while there would be no dma_wmb() for the page table memory
prior to the earliest point of HW reading the STE.
Fix it by adding a dma_wmb() prior to updating the STE.
Fixes: 56e1a4cc2588 ("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add unit tests for arm_smmu_write_entry")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/aXdlnLLFUBwjT0V5@willie-the-truck/
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc at nvidia.com>
---
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 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 852379845359..f0e3b407c293 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
@@ -1236,6 +1236,13 @@ void arm_smmu_write_entry(struct arm_smmu_entry_writer *writer, __le64 *entry,
__le64 unused_update[NUM_ENTRY_QWORDS];
u8 used_qword_diff;
+ /*
+ * Many of the entry structures have pointers to other structures that
+ * need to have their updates be visible before any writes of the entry
+ * happen.
+ */
+ dma_wmb();
+
used_qword_diff =
arm_smmu_entry_qword_diff(writer, entry, target, unused_update);
if (hweight8(used_qword_diff) == 1) {
--
2.43.0
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