Re: [PATCH RESEND STABLE v6.1] iommu: Avoid races around default domain allocations

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 04:40:50PM +0530, Nikhil V wrote:
> From: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
> 
> This fix is applicable for LTS kernel, 6.1.y. In latest kernels, this race
> issue is fixed by the patch series [1] and [2]. The right thing to do here
> would have been propagating these changes from latest kernel to the stable
> branch, 6.1.y. However, these changes seems too intrusive to be picked for
> stable branches. Hence, the fix proposed can be taken as an alternative
> instead of backporting the patch series.
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0-v8-81230027b2fa+9d-iommu_all_defdom_jgg@nvidia.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0-v5-1b99ae392328+44574-iommu_err_unwind_jgg@nvidia.com/
> 
> Issue:
> A race condition is observed when arm_smmu_device_probe and
> modprobe of client devices happens in parallel. This results
> in the allocation of a new default domain for the iommu group
> even though it was previously allocated and the respective iova
> domain(iovad) was initialized. However, for this newly allocated
> default domain, iovad will not be initialized. As a result, for
> devices requesting dma allocations, this uninitialized iovad will
> be used, thereby causing NULL pointer dereference issue.
> 
> Flow:
> - During arm_smmu_device_probe, bus_iommu_probe() will be called
> as part of iommu_device_register(). This results in the device probe,
> __iommu_probe_device().
> 
> - When the modprobe of the client device happens in parallel, it
> sets up the DMA configuration for the device using of_dma_configure_id(),
> which inturn calls iommu_probe_device(). Later, default domain is
> allocated and attached using iommu_alloc_default_domain() and
> __iommu_attach_device() respectively. It then ends up initializing a
> mapping domain(IOVA domain) and rcaches for the device via
> arch_setup_dma_ops()->iommu_setup_dma_ops().
> 
> - Now, in the bus_iommu_probe() path, it again tries to allocate
> a default domain via probe_alloc_default_domain(). This results in
> allocating a new default domain(along with IOVA domain) via
> __iommu_domain_alloc(). However, this newly allocated IOVA domain
> will not be initialized.
> 
> - Now, when the same client device tries dma allocations via
> iommu_dma_alloc(), it ends up accessing the rcaches of the newly
> allocated IOVA domain, which is not initialized. This results
> into NULL pointer dereferencing.
> 
> Fix this issue by adding a check in probe_alloc_default_domain()
> to see if the iommu_group already has a default domain allocated
> and initialized.
> 
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # see patch description, fix applicable only for 6.1.y
> Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
> Co-developed-by: Nikhil V <quic_nprakash@quicinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nikhil V <quic_nprakash@quicinc.com>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Why RESEND?  What happened to the first send?

thanks,

greg k-h