Re: [PATCH] optee: don't fail on unsuccessful device enumeration

[Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>]

Hi Volodymyr,

On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 15:57, Volodymyr Babchuk <vlad.babchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sumit,
>
> On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 07:55, Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Volodymyr,
> >
> > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 06:32, Volodymyr Babchuk <vlad.babchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Sumit,
> > >
> > > On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 08:38, Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Volodymyr,
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 06:48, Volodymyr Babchuk <vlad.babchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Sumit,
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 11:24, Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Volodymyr,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 13:30, Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi Volodymyr,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 2:36 AM Volodymyr Babchuk
> > > > > > > <vlad.babchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > optee_enumerate_devices() can fail for multiple of reasons. For
> > > > > > > > example, I encountered issue when Xen OP-TEE mediator NACKed
> > > > > > > > PTA_CMD_GET_DEVICES call.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Could you share a detailed description of the issue which you are
> > > > > > facing? optee_enumerate_devices() is a simple invocation of pseudo TA
> > > > > > and cases where OP-TEE doesn't provide corresponding pseudo TA are
> > > > > > handled very well.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, I did some research and looks like issue is broader, than I
> > > > > expected.  It is my fault, that I wasn't paying attention to the tee
> > > > > client support in the kernel.  Basically, it is incompatible with the
> > > > > virtualization feature. You see, the main issue with virtual machines
> > > > > is the second stage MMU. Intermediate physical address, that appear to
> > > > > be contiguous for the kernel may be not contiguous in the real
> > > > > physical memory due to 2nd stage MMU mappings. This is the reason I
> > > > > introduced OPTEE_MSG_ATTR_NONCONTIG in the kernel driver.
> > > > >
> > > > > But, looks like kernel-side optee client does not use this feature. It
> > > > > tries to provide SHM buffer as a simple contiguous span of memory. Xen
> > > > > blocks calls with OPTEE_MSG_ATTR_TYPE_TMEM_*   but without
> > > > > OPTEE_MSG_ATTR_NONCONTIG , because it can't translate IPAs to PAs for
> > > > > such buffers. This is why call to  PTA_CMD_GET_DEVICES fails.
> > > > >
> > > > > Valid fix would be to use OPTEE_MSG_ATTR_NONCONTIG whenever possible.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the detailed analysis. It looks like you are missing the
> > > > following fix patch in your tree which basically fixed broken
> > > > tee_shm_alloc() in case dynamic shared memory is enabled (IIRC
> > > > virtualization only supports dynamic shared memory).
> > > >
> > > > commit a249dd200d03791cab23e47571f3e13d9c72af6c
> > >
> > > Actually, I have this patch in my tree. So, it does not fixes the
> > > issue. Which is weird, actually. I'm planning to look deeper into
> > > this.
> >
> > AFAICT, the only difference here is that it's the kernel memory
> > registered rather than user-space memory. But I am not very conversant
> > with the Xen environment. So I hope you will be able to find the root
> > cause as to why Xen is blocking this invocation.
>
> Yes. I have found issue in Xen mediator code. It didn't allowed TMEM
> with NULL buf_ptr and without ATTR_NONCONTIG flag. This is clearly
> a bug and I already sent the patch to Xen ML.
>

Glad to hear that you were able to find the bug and fix it.

BTW, I guess the reason you didn't notice this bug in user-space
(xtest 1025) is due to missing kernel patch [1] (not yet in upstream)
from your kernel tree.

[1] https://github.com/linaro-swg/linux/commit/1149e7d06a009e5dacf6aaa29bd087da64bfbed2

-Sumit

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