From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
To: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@amd.com>,
joro@8bytes.org, will@kernel.org, robin.murphy@arm.com
Cc: iommu@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
vasant.hegde@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1] iommu/sva: Fix crash in iommu_sva_unbind_device()
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 14:50:27 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0833d160-9659-4140-b775-a0ab0c17a451@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260224183056.2628698-1-lizhi.hou@amd.com>
On 2/25/26 02:30, Lizhi Hou wrote:
> domain->mm->iommu_mm can be freed by iommu_domain_free():
> iommu_domain_free()
> mmdrop()
> __mmdrop()
> mm_pasid_drop()
> After iommu_domain_free() returns, accessing domain->mm->iommu_mm may
> dereference a freed mm structure, leading to a crash.
>
> Fix this by taking a reference to the mm via mmgrab() before
> calling iommu_domain_free(), and dropping it with mmdrop() after
> finishing access to domain->mm->iommu_mm.
>
> Fixes: e37d5a2d60a3 ("iommu/sva: invalidate stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space")
> Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou<lizhi.hou@amd.com>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c
> index 07d64908a05f..523b8c65c86f 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c
> @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ void iommu_sva_unbind_device(struct iommu_sva *handle)
> return;
> }
>
> + mmgrab(domain->mm);
> iommu_detach_device_pasid(domain, dev, iommu_mm->pasid);
> if (--domain->users == 0) {
> list_del(&domain->next);
> @@ -190,6 +191,7 @@ void iommu_sva_unbind_device(struct iommu_sva *handle)
> if (list_empty(&iommu_sva_mms))
> iommu_sva_present = false;
> }
> + mmdrop(domain->mm);
>
> mutex_unlock(&iommu_sva_lock);
> kfree(handle);
How about making the iommu_mm structure itself an owner of the mm_struct
lifetime? Does something like the following work?
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c
index 07d64908a05f..9c56c2222617 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static struct iommu_mm_data
*iommu_alloc_mm_data(struct mm_struct *mm, struct de
iommu_mm->pasid = pasid;
iommu_mm->mm = mm;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&iommu_mm->sva_domains);
+ mmgrab(mm);
/*
* Make sure the write to mm->iommu_mm is not reordered in front of
* initialization to iommu_mm fields. If it does, readers may see a
@@ -212,6 +213,8 @@ void mm_pasid_drop(struct mm_struct *mm)
return;
iommu_free_global_pasid(iommu_mm->pasid);
+ mm->iommu_mm = NULL;
+ mmdrop(mm);
kfree(iommu_mm);
}
Thanks,
baolu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-02 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-24 18:30 [PATCH V1] iommu/sva: Fix crash in iommu_sva_unbind_device() Lizhi Hou
2026-02-25 9:35 ` Yi Liu
2026-02-25 22:09 ` Lizhi Hou
2026-02-28 12:14 ` Yi Liu
2026-03-03 18:33 ` Lizhi Hou
2026-03-04 10:10 ` Yi Liu
2026-03-04 21:25 ` Lizhi Hou
2026-03-02 6:50 ` Baolu Lu [this message]
2026-03-02 11:04 ` Yi Liu
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