Re: [PATCH 2/5] iommu: Ensure device has the same iommu_ops as the domain

Nicolin Chen
2022-06-06T16:51:56Z

Hi Robin,

On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 03:33:42PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2022-06-06 07:19, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > The core code should not call an iommu driver op with a struct device
> > parameter unless it knows that the dev_iommu_priv_get() for that struct
> > device was setup by the same driver. Otherwise in a mixed driver system
> > the iommu_priv could be casted to the wrong type.
>
> We don't have mixed-driver systems, and there are plenty more
> significant problems than this one to solve before we can (but thanks
> for pointing it out - I hadn't got as far as auditing the public
> interfaces yet). Once domains are allocated via a particular device's
> IOMMU instance in the first place, there will be ample opportunity for
> the core to stash suitable identifying information in the domain for
> itself. TBH even the current code could do it without needing the
> weirdly invasive changes here.

Do you have an alternative and less invasive solution in mind?

> > Store the iommu_ops pointer in the iommu_domain and use it as a check to
> > validate that the struct device is correct before invoking any domain op
> > that accepts a struct device.
>
> In fact this even describes exactly that - "Store the iommu_ops pointer
> in the iommu_domain", vs. the "Store the iommu_ops pointer in the
> iommu_domain_ops" which the patch is actually doing :/

Will fix that.

> [...]
> > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
> > index 19cf28d40ebe..8a1f437a51f2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
> > @@ -1963,6 +1963,10 @@ static int __iommu_attach_device(struct iommu_domain *domain,
> > {
> > int ret;
> >
> > + /* Ensure the device was probe'd onto the same driver as the domain */
> > + if (dev->bus->iommu_ops != domain->ops->iommu_ops)
>
> Nope, dev_iommu_ops(dev) please. Furthermore I think the logical place
> to put this is in iommu_group_do_attach_device(), since that's the
> gateway for the public interfaces - we shouldn't need to second-guess
> ourselves for internal default-domain-related calls.

Will move to iommu_group_do_attach_device and change to dev_iommu_ops.

Thanks!
Nic