Re: [PATCH] iommu: Avoid NULL group dereference

Robin Murphy
2017-08-17T16:56:23Z

On 17/08/17 16:41, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:40:08AM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> The recently-removed FIXME in iommu_get_domain_for_dev() turns out to
>> have been a little misleading, since that check is still worthwhile even
>> when groups *are* universal. We have a few IOMMU-aware drivers which
>> only care whether their device is already attached to an existing domain
>> or not, for which the previous behaviour of iommu_get_domain_for_dev()
>> was ideal, and who now crash if their device does not have an IOMMU.
>>
>> With IOMMU groups now serving as a reliable indicator of whether a
>> device has an IOMMU or not (barring false-positives from VFIO no-IOMMU
>> mode), drivers could arguably do this:
>>
>> group = iommu_group_get(dev);
>> if (group) {
>> domain = iommu_get_domain_for_dev(dev);
>> iommu_group_put(group);
>> }
>
> Okay, so just to check I got it right: Drivers do the above to check
> whether a device is managed by an IOMMU, and that crashes now because
> the 'group == NULL' check was removed?

Indeed - the typical context is network descriptors that don't have
space to store the CPU virtual address of the buffer, so when a packet
arrives the driver has to work backwards from the DMA address, in this
sort of pattern:

addr = desc[idx]->addr;
domain = iommu_get_domain_for_dev(dev);
if (domain)
addr = iommu_iova_to_phys(domain, addr)
buf = phys_to_virt(addr)

(the GIC thing is similar but in reverse, with a physical address which
may or may not need replacing with an IOVA). Unless we were to change
the interface to be iommu_get_domain_for_group(), I think it makes sense
for it to remain valid to call for any device.

Robin.