Re: [PATCH v2 rc] iommu: Skip PASID validation for devices without PASID capability

[Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>]

On 4/30/25 10:54, Tushar Dave wrote:
> Generally PASID support requires ACS settings that usually create
> single device groups, but there are some niche cases where we can get
> multi-device groups and still have working PASID support. The primary
> issue is that PCI switches are not required to treat PASID tagged TLPs
> specially so appropriate ACS settings are required to route all TLPs to
> the host bridge if PASID is going to work properly.
> 
> pci_enable_pasid() does check that each device that will use PASID has
> the proper ACS settings to achieve this routing.
> 
> However, no-PASID devices can be combined with PASID capable devices
> within the same topology using non-uniform ACS settings. In this case
> the no-PASID devices may not have strict route to host ACS flags and
> end up being grouped with the PASID devices.
> 
> This configuration fails to allow use of the PASID within the iommu
> core code which wrongly checks if the no-PASID device supports PASID.
> 
> Fix this by ignoring no-PASID devices during the PASID validation. They
> will never issue a PASID TLP anyhow so they can be ignored.
> 
> Fixes: c404f55c26fc ("iommu: Validate the PASID in iommu_attach_device_pasid()")
> Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave<tdave@nvidia.com>

Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>