From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
To: sashiko-reviews@lists.linux.dev
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] iommufd/vdevice: add TSM request ioctl
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 13:48:50 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq5ase7eshw5.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260525221834.AD7021F000E9@smtp.kernel.org>
sashiko-bot@kernel.org writes:
> Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 3 potential issue(s) to consider:
> - [High] The ioctl handler incorrectly truncates the `ssize_t` residue from `tsm_guest_req()` to a 32-bit `int`, causing valid large positive residues to be misinterpreted as negative error codes.
> - [Medium] The `IOMMU_VDEVICE_TSM_REQ` ioctl omits the TSM implementation-specific result code (`tsm_code`), preventing userspace from forwarding it to the guest.
> - [Low] Manual initialization of `sockptr_t` bypasses kernel macros.
> --
>
> commit d5ee59b85809ac88694767fcc899de1ccc2821ca
> Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
>
> iommufd/vdevice: add TSM request ioctl
>
> This commit adds the IOMMU_VDEVICE_TSM_REQ ioctl to issue TSM guest
> request/response transactions against an iommufd vdevice. It forwards
> these requests through the new tsm_guest_req() helper to the PCI TSM
> backend, supporting CoCo guest device attestation.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/tsm.c b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/tsm.c
>> index 09ee668dbed9d..342fbdb6a6b95 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/tsm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/tsm.c
> [ ... ]
>> +int iommufd_vdevice_tsm_req_ioctl(struct iommufd_ucmd *ucmd)
>> +{
>> + int rc;
>
> [Severity: High]
> tsm_guest_req() returns an ssize_t representing the unconsumed byte residue,
> and the user-provided req_len and resp_len are __u32.
>
> If the residue is between 2GB and 4GB, could it overflow this 32-bit signed
> rc variable and become a negative value? This could cause the libc ioctl()
> wrapper to incorrectly treat a successful request as a failure.
>
> Would it be safer to return the residue by modifying a field in
> struct iommu_vdevice_tsm_req instead of returning unbounded positive values
> via the ioctl return code?
>
req_len and resp_len are both 32 bits.
>
>> + struct iommufd_vdevice *vdev;
>> + struct iommu_vdevice_tsm_req *cmd = ucmd->cmd;
>> + struct tsm_guest_req_info info = {
>> + .scope = cmd->scope,
>> + .req = {
>> + .user = u64_to_user_ptr(cmd->req_uptr),
>> + .is_kernel = false,
>> + },
>
> [Severity: Low]
> Could this use the USER_SOCKPTR() macro to initialize the sockptr_t safely
> instead of manually setting .user and .is_kernel? Bypassing the macro makes
> this fragile against future layout changes in the sockptr_t structure.
>
>> + .req_len = cmd->req_len,
>> + .resp = {
>> + .user = u64_to_user_ptr(cmd->resp_uptr),
>> + .is_kernel = false,
>> + },
>> + .resp_len = cmd->resp_len,
>> + };
> [ ... ]
>> diff --git a/drivers/virt/coco/tsm-core.c b/drivers/virt/coco/tsm-core.c
>> index 3870d08ffe0d1..c24886851f9e0 100644
>> --- a/drivers/virt/coco/tsm-core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/virt/coco/tsm-core.c
> [ ... ]
>> +ssize_t tsm_guest_req(struct device *dev, struct tsm_guest_req_info *info)
>> +{
>> + int ret;
>> + enum pci_tsm_req_scope pci_scope;
>> +
>> + if (!dev_is_pci(dev))
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> + ret = tsm_pci_req_scope(info->scope, &pci_scope);
>> + if (ret)
>> + return ret;
>> +
>> + return pci_tsm_guest_req(to_pci_dev(dev), pci_scope, info->req,
>> + info->req_len, info->resp, info->resp_len,
>> + NULL);
>
> [Severity: Medium]
> pci_tsm_guest_req() supports returning a TSM implementation-specific result
> code via the tsm_code parameter, but it is passed NULL here and omitted
> from struct iommu_vdevice_tsm_req.
>
> Do userspace VMMs need this architecture-specific result code to
> determine the outcome and failure reasons of attestation flows, and
> accurately emulate the hardware TSM interface for the guest?
>
Will update the iotcl to include tsm_code as part of the response.
>
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tsm_guest_req);
>
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-26 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-25 15:48 [PATCH v5 0/5] Add iommufd ioctls to support TSM operations Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)
2026-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] vfio: cache KVM VM file references instead of raw struct kvm pointers Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)
2026-05-25 16:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-26 8:11 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2026-05-26 10:52 ` Anthony Krowiak
2026-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] iommufd/device: Associate KVM file pointer with iommufd_device Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)
2026-05-25 20:33 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-26 8:17 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2026-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] iommufd/viommu: Keep a reference to the KVM file Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)
2026-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] iommufd/tsm: add vdevice TSM bind/unbind ioctl Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)
2026-05-25 21:44 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] iommufd/vdevice: add TSM request ioctl Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)
2026-05-25 22:18 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-26 8:18 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2026-05-27 0:16 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2026-05-27 6:17 ` Dan Williams (nvidia)
2026-05-27 6:56 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-05-27 12:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-05-27 15:34 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2026-05-27 17:49 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2026-05-27 22:49 ` Dan Williams (nvidia)
2026-06-02 5:10 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2026-06-02 8:40 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
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