From: Linda Knippers <lknipper@redhat.com>
To: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [RHEL6.8 PATCH 3/3] iommu/vt-d: Fix dmar_domain leak in iommu_attach_device
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:00:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5644A97F.3010900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKocOOP3sc4cJdp81hbPh3nnxYRhNAbHaR4Yvb8fM2swK2g=4A@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/12/2015 09:47 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Linda Knippers <lknipper@redhat.com> wrote:
>> bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1053879
>>
>> This is a backport to RHEL6 of Myron's backport to RHEL7.
>> http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhkernel-list/2015-January/msg00231.html
>>
>> As Myron notes, the helper functions in the upstream code aren't
>> present in RHEL6 or RHEL7 so this code is less readable. Myron
>> didn't backport the helpers because he's planning to rebase the
>> code in RHEL7.2. I didn't backport the helpers to not introduce
>> more change.
>>
>> Myron's comments:
>>
>> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109829
>> Upstream Status: 62c22167dd70b730f61c2b88f950e98154a87980
>> >From Joerg's iommu/fixes branch intended for v3.19 -
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu.git/commit/?h=iommu/fixes&id=62c22167dd70b730f61c2b88f950e98154a87980
>>
>> Conflict:
>> This patch has a dependency on upstream commit ab8dfe2 ("iommu/vt-d:
>> Introduce helper functions to improve code readability") which was
>> introduced during v3.17-rc1. RHEL7 does not have that commit, and
>> thus
>> does not have 'domain_type_is_vm_or_si()'. As such, this back-port
>> uses
>> the older method used prior to the introduction of
>> 'domain_type_is_vm_or_si() (see upstream commit ab8dfe2).
>>
>> commit 62c22167dd70b730f61c2b88f950e98154a87980
>> Author: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
>> Date: Tue Dec 9 12:56:45 2014 +0100
>>
>> iommu/vt-d: Fix dmar_domain leak in iommu_attach_device
>>
>> Since commit 1196c2f a domain is only destroyed in the
>> notifier path if it is hot-unplugged. This caused a
>> domain leakage in iommu_attach_device when a driver was
>> unbound from the device and bound to VFIO. In this case the
>> device is attached to a new domain and unlinked from the old
>> domain. At this point nothing points to the old domain
>> anymore and its memory is leaked.
>> Fix this by explicitly freeing the old domain in
>> iommu_attach_domain.
>
> There is a lot of information in this commit log that isn't appropriate
> for a commit log. This information is better fit in the section that goes
> in the throw away comments section of the patch. This commit message
> is rather confusing and could use some refining.
>
> thanks,
> -- Shuah
>>
>> Fixes: 1196c2f (iommu/vt-d: Fix dmar_domain leak in iommu_attach_device)
>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18
>> Tested-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hp.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Linda Knippers <lknipper@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c | 5 +++++
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c b/drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
>> index 1c04ed8..80bd6d76 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
>> @@ -3851,6 +3851,11 @@ static int intel_iommu_attach_device(struct iommu_domain *domain,
>> domain_remove_one_dev_info(old_domain, pdev);
>> else
>> domain_remove_dev_info(old_domain);
>> +
>> + if (!(old_domain->flags & DOMAIN_FLAG_VIRTUAL_MACHINE) &&
>> + !(old_domain->flags & DOMAIN_FLAG_STATIC_IDENTITY) &&
>> + list_empty(&old_domain->devices))
>> + domain_exit(old_domain);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> --
>> 1.8.3.1
>>
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2015-11-10 20:12 ` [RHEL6.8 PATCH 3/3] iommu/vt-d: Fix dmar_domain leak in iommu_attach_device Linda Knippers
2015-11-12 14:47 ` Shuah Khan
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