Re: [PATCH v5 02/14] driver core: Add dma_cleanup callback in bus_type - Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/14] driver core: Add dma_cleanup callback in bus_type
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:02:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YgootGL4aL+XRE/J@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220104015644.2294354-3-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 09:56:32AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> The bus_type structure defines dma_configure() callback for bus drivers
> to configure DMA on the devices. This adds the paired dma_cleanup()
> callback and calls it during driver unbinding so that bus drivers can do
> some cleanup work.
> 
> One use case for this paired DMA callbacks is for the bus driver to check
> for DMA ownership conflicts during driver binding, where multiple devices
> belonging to a same IOMMU group (the minimum granularity of isolation and
> protection) may be assigned to kernel drivers or user space respectively.
> 
> Without this change, for example, the vfio driver has to listen to a bus
> BOUND_DRIVER event and then BUG_ON() in case of dma ownership conflict.
> This leads to bad user experience since careless driver binding operation
> may crash the system if the admin overlooks the group restriction. Aside
> from bad design, this leads to a security problem as a root user, even with
> lockdown=integrity, can force the kernel to BUG.
> 
> With this change, the bus driver could check and set the DMA ownership in
> driver binding process and fail on ownership conflicts. The DMA ownership
> should be released during driver unbinding.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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