Re: [PATCH v5 11/15] PCI: Obey iomem restrictions for procfs mmap

Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-04T16:51:40Z

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 09:44:04AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:09 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 1:28 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:08:11AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > There's three ways to access PCI BARs from userspace: /dev/mem, sysfs
> > > > files, and the old proc interface. Two check against
> > > > iomem_is_exclusive, proc never did. And with CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM,
> > > > this starts to matter, since we don't want random userspace having
> > > > access to PCI BARs while a driver is loaded and using it.
> > > >
> > > > Fix this by adding the same iomem_is_exclusive() check we already have
> > > > on the sysfs side in pci_mmap_resource().
> > > >
> > > > References: 90a545e98126 ("restrict /dev/mem to idle io memory ranges")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
> > >
> > > This is OK with me but it looks like IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE is currently
> > > only used in a few places:
> > >
> > > e1000_probe() calls pci_request_selected_regions_exclusive(),
> > > ne_pci_probe() calls pci_request_regions_exclusive(),
> > > vmbus_allocate_mmio() calls request_mem_region_exclusive()
> > >
> > > which raises the question of whether it's worth keeping
> > > IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE at all. I'm totally fine with removing it
> > > completely.
> >
> > Now that CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM upgrades IORESOURCE_BUSY to
> > IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE semantics the latter has lost its meaning so I'd
> > be in favor of removing it as well.
>
> Still has some value since it enforces exclusive access even if the
> config isn't enabled, and iirc e1000 had some fun with userspace tools
> clobbering the firmware and bricking the chip.

There's *some* value; I'm just skeptical since only three drivers use
it.

IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE is from e8de1481fd71 ("resource: allow MMIO
exclusivity for device drivers"), and the commit message says this is
only active when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is set. I didn't check to see
whether that's still true.

That commit adds a bunch of wrappers and "__"-prefixed functions to
pass the IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE flag around. That's a fair bit of
uglification for three drivers.

> Another thing I kinda wondered, since pci maintainer is here: At least
> in drivers/gpu I see very few drivers explicitly requestion regions
> (this might be a historical artifact due to the shadow attach stuff
> before we had real modesetting drivers). And pci core doesn't do that
> either, even when a driver is bound. Is this intentional, or
> should/could we do better? Since drivers work happily without
> reserving regions I don't think "the drivers need to remember to do
> this" will ever really work out well.

You're right, many drivers don't call pci_request_regions(). Maybe we
could do better, but I haven't looked into that recently. There is a
related note in Documentation/PCI/pci.rst that's been there for a long
time (it refers to "pci_request_resources()", which has never existed
AFAICT). I'm certainly open to proposals.