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From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: "joro@8bytes.org" <joro@8bytes.org>,
	"will@kernel.org" <will@kernel.org>,
	"robin.murphy@arm.com" <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
	"baolu.lu@linux.intel.com" <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>,
	"jgg@nvidia.com" <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	"iommu@lists.linux.dev" <iommu@lists.linux.dev>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com" <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rc v4] iommu: Fix nested pci_dev_reset_iommu_prepare/done()
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 05:10:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac5cxDW6qLudN+X/@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN9PR11MB5276EBE613B081DEFFF6456D8C51A@BN9PR11MB5276.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 07:34:24AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> But with it there might be corner cases to pay attention in case iommu
> driver calls it in other places. e.g. Sashiko [1] pointed out one potential issue:
> 
> "
> Incrementing gdev->reset_depth at the beginning of the function prematurely
> exposes the blocking_domain to the driver. When __iommu_attach_device() is
> called above, if the driver's attach_dev callback uses
> iommu_driver_get_domain_for_dev() to query its current domain, it will observe
> reset_depth == 1 and receive the blocking_domain even though it is not yet
> attached to it.
> Could reset_depth be set to 1 only after a successful attachment, while nested
> calls still check for gdev->reset_depth > 0 at the beginning?
> "

Ah, that seems a good catch.

I noticed the same problem in done() but overlooked prepare().

Yea, it should do something likewise:

	if (gdev->reset_depth) {
		gdev->reset_depth++);
		return 0;
	}
	...
	attach(blocking_domain);
	set_pasid(blocking_domain);
	gdev->reset_depth = 1;

Nicolin

      reply	other threads:[~2026-04-02 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-24  1:40 [PATCH rc v4] iommu: Fix nested pci_dev_reset_iommu_prepare/done() Nicolin Chen
2026-04-02  7:34 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-04-02 12:10   ` Nicolin Chen [this message]

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