[PATCH] RISC-V: Remove IORESOURCE_BUSY flag for no-map reserved memory
Xianting Tian
xianting.tian at linux.alibaba.com
Wed May 11 19:50:00 PDT 2022
在 2022/5/12 上午10:32, Nick Kossifidis 写道:
> Hello Xianting,
>
>> ---
>> arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
>> index 834eb652a7b9..71f2966b1474 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
>> @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static void __init init_resources(void)
>>
>> if (unlikely(memblock_is_nomap(region))) {
>> res->name = "Reserved";
>> - res->flags = IORESOURCE_MEM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;
>> + res->flags = IORESOURCE_MEM;
>> } else {
>> res->name = "System RAM";
>> res->flags = IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;
>
> The short story:
>
> This makes sense but we should at least mark them as
> IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE, and also remove IORESOURCE_BUSY from line 192
> above
> (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.18-rc6/source/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c#L192).
Thanks Nick for the detailed reply, I will sent V2 patch soon according
to your suggestion.
>
> The long story:
>
> The spec says about no-map:
>
> "
> Indicates the operating system must not create a virtual mapping
> of the region as part of its standard mapping of system memory,
> nor permit speculative access to it under any circumstances other
> than under the control of the device driver using the region.
> "
>
> It basically says that only the driver that uses the region should be
> able to create mappings for it and access it, and even that is not
> enough to prevent speculative access to the region by someone other
> than the driver. The thing is we can't implement this in a simple way
> because -to begin with- we don't have a way to pin those regions to
> specific devices/drivers, the memory-region binding doesn't say
> anything about that. When using devm_ioremap_resource() the first
> driver to claim the resource will mark it as busy so other drivers
> using the same api won't be able to use it, however the region can
> still be mapped in other ways (e.g. through ioremap directly) so using
> the resource tree to track/protect the regions marked with no-map
> isn't enough. They can even be accessed from userspace through
> /dev/mem unless we add them to the resource tree as IORESOURCE_MEM and
> enable/set CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM/iomem=strict, but even then in case
> the corresponding ioresource isn't busy (e.g. hasn't been claimed by a
> driver yet through devm_ioremap_resource) we still have to mark them
> as IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE for iomem_is_exclusive() to do the trick
> (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.18-rc6/source/kernel/resource.c#L1739)
> and prevent access through /dev/mem.
>
> Finally the definition of no-map and the definition of MEMBLOCK_NOMAP
> are not the same, all MEMBLOCK_NOMAP says is "don't add to kernel
> direct mapping" so ioremap that uses vmalloc can still be used by
> everyone, in general it's a mess. It becomes worse, if you mark a
> reserved-memory region with no-map and that region overlaps with
> /memory, early_init_dt_reserve_memory_arch() will isolate it, mark it
> as MEMBLOCK_NOMAP and won't add it to memblock.reserved, if it doesn't
> overlap it will just ignore it and still not add it to
> memblock.reserved. So if we want to add a reserved-memory region that
> doesn't overlap with /memory (a valid scenario allowed by the
> binding), there is no way to mark it with no-map.
>
> When I wrote that code I was looking for a way to prevent access to
> reserved regions through /dev/mem and by other drivers, regardless of
> being part of /memory or not, and since I couldn't mark them with
> no-map to track them because of early_init_dt_reserve_memory_arch(), I
> marked them as busy and then used them from the driver with ioremap
> directly. It was a temporary measure until I had a better approach
> (e.g. override ioremap / devmem_is_allowed like other archs do) but I
> never got the time to finish it, sorry for the mess !
>
> Regards,
> Nick
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