[PATCH v2 4/4] vfio: Require that devices support DMA cache coherence

Jason Gunthorpe
2022-04-07T15:24:04Z

IOMMU_CACHE means that normal DMAs do not require any additional coherency
mechanism and is the basic uAPI that VFIO exposes to userspace. For
instance VFIO applications like DPDK will not work if additional coherency
operations are required.

Therefore check IOMMU_CAP_CACHE_COHERENCY like vdpa & usnic do before
allowing an IOMMU backed VFIO device to be created.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/vfio/vfio.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
index a4555014bd1e72..9edad767cfdad3 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
@@ -815,6 +815,13 @@ static int __vfio_register_dev(struct vfio_device *device,

int vfio_register_group_dev(struct vfio_device *device)
{
+ /*
+ * VFIO always sets IOMMU_CACHE because we offer no way for userspace to
+ * restore cache coherency.
+ */
+ if (!iommu_capable(device->dev->bus, IOMMU_CAP_CACHE_COHERENCY))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
return __vfio_register_dev(device,
vfio_group_find_or_alloc(device->dev));
}
--
2.35.1