Re: [PATCH 1/1] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: eliminate a potential memory corruption on Hi16xx soc

[Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:36:16PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
> ITS translation register map:
> 0x0000-0x003C	Reserved
> 0x0040		GITS_TRANSLATER
> 0x0044-0xFFFC	Reserved
> 
> The standard GITS_TRANSLATER register in ITS is only 4 bytes, but Hisilicon
> expands the next 4 bytes to carry some IMPDEF information. That means, 8 bytes
> data will be written to MSIAddress each time.
> 
> MSIAddr: |----4bytes----|----4bytes----|
> 	 |    MSIData   |    IMPDEF    |
> 
> There is no problem for ITS, because the next 4 bytes space is reserved in ITS.
> But it will overwrite the 4 bytes memory following "sync_count". It's very
> luckly that the previous and the next neighbour of "sync_count" are both aligned
> by 8 bytes, so no problem is met now.
> 
> It's good to explicitly add a workaround:
> 1. Add gcc __attribute__((aligned(8))) to make sure that "sync_count" is always
>    aligned by 8 bytes.
> 2. Add a "u64" union member to make sure the 4 bytes padding is always exist.
> 
> There is no functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
> index 5059d09..a07bc0d 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
> @@ -586,7 +586,10 @@ struct arm_smmu_device {
>  
>  	struct arm_smmu_strtab_cfg	strtab_cfg;
>  
> +	union {
> +	u64				padding; /* workaround for Hisilicon */
>  	u32				sync_count;
> +	} __attribute__((aligned(8)));

Won't this already be aligned by the ABI?

Anyway, you'll need to swizzle things for big-endian, I suspect. Maybe you
can do something clever like making sync_count an array of two elements
and determining the offset based on the endianness. Or just keep it simple
like we do for things like struct qrwlock and struct qspinlock and use
#ifdefs.

Also -- you need a comment to explain this insanity :)

Will