Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma-direct: Validate DMA mask against canonical DMA addresses

Robin Murphy
2026-01-20T11:59:44Z

On 2026-01-20 9:59 am, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 20/01/2026 06:42, Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) wrote:
>> On systems that apply an address encryption tag or mask to DMA addresses,
>> DMA mask validation must be performed against the canonical DMA address.
>> Using a non-canonical (e.g. encrypted or unencrypted) DMA address
>> can incorrectly fail capability checks, since architecture-specific
>> encryption bits are not part of the device’s actual DMA addressing
>> capability. For example, arm64 adds PROT_NS_SHARED to unencrypted DMA
>> addresses.
>>
>> Fix this by validating device DMA masks against __phys_to_dma(), ensuring
>> that the architecture encryption mask does not influence the check.
>>
>> Fixes: b66e2ee7b6c8 ("dma: Introduce generic dma_addr_*crypted helpers")
>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
>> ---
>>   kernel/dma/direct.c | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/dma/direct.c b/kernel/dma/direct.c
>> index 8e04f72baaa3..a5639e9415f5 100644
>> --- a/kernel/dma/direct.c
>> +++ b/kernel/dma/direct.c
>> @@ -580,12 +580,12 @@ int dma_direct_supported(struct device *dev, u64
>> mask)
>>       /*
>>        * This check needs to be against the actual bit mask value, so use
>> -     * phys_to_dma_unencrypted() here so that the SME encryption mask
>> isn't
>> +     * __phys_to_dma() here so that the arch specific encryption mask
>> isn't
>>        * part of the check.
>>        */
>>       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA))
>>           min_mask = min_t(u64, min_mask, zone_dma_limit);
>> -    return mask >= phys_to_dma_unencrypted(dev, min_mask);
>> +    return mask >= __phys_to_dma(dev, min_mask);
>
> This is wrong, isn't it ? For e.g., for CCA, even though the "Flag" is
> added to the PA, it is really part of the actual "PA" and thus must be
> checked against the full PA ?

Yes, it's much the same as for AMD SEV (albeit the other way round) -
the encryption/decryption bit is part of the DMA address because it
needs to be driven by the device, so it is crucial that the device's DMA
mask is capable of expressing that.

Hence, as I think we've discussed before, for CCA we can't really
support 32-bit devices doing DMA to shared pages at all, unless the
whole VM is limited to a 31-bit IPA space.

Thanks,
Robin.

>
> Suzuki
>
>
>>   }
>>   static const struct bus_dma_region *dma_find_range(struct device *dev,
>