From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rajatxjain@gmail.com,
dtor@google.com, jsbarnes@google.com,
Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>,
Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: ACPI: Allow internal devices to be marked as untrusted
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:46:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YewYrQeHsJWpNI5p@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220121214117.GA1154852@bhelgaas>
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 03:41:17PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> [+cc Greg, Jean-Philippe, Mika, Pavel, Oliver, Joerg since they
> commented on previous "external-facing" discussion]
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 04:04:09PM -0800, Rajat Jain wrote:
> > Today the pci_dev->untrusted is set for any devices sitting downstream
> > an external facing port (determined via "ExternalFacingPort" property).
> > This however, disallows any internal devices to be marked as untrusted.
>
> This isn't stated quite accurately. "dev->untrusted" is currently set
> only by set_pcie_untrusted(), when "dev" has an upstream bridge that
> is either external-facing or untrusted.
>
> But that doesn't disallow or prevent internal devices from being
> marked as untrusted; it just doesn't implement that.
>
> > There are use-cases though, where a platform would like to treat an
> > internal device as untrusted (perhaps because it runs untrusted
> > firmware, or offers an attack surface by handling untrusted network
> > data etc).
Who is making this policy decision?
> > This patch introduces a new "UntrustedDevice" property that can be used
> > by the firmware to mark any device as untrusted.
Is this in the ACPI standard? If so, where?
This notion of "trust" for PCI devices is crazy, as I have stated a
number of times before. But at least you are not trying to say kernel
code is trusted or not.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-22 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-20 0:04 [PATCH] PCI: ACPI: Allow internal devices to be marked as untrusted Rajat Jain
2022-01-20 2:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2022-01-20 15:08 ` Rajat Jain
2022-01-27 23:02 ` Rajat Jain
2022-01-21 21:41 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2022-01-22 14:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2022-01-24 6:27 ` Mika Westerberg
2022-01-25 10:58 ` Mika Westerberg
2022-01-25 11:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-25 12:55 ` Mika Westerberg
2022-01-25 14:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2022-01-27 22:26 ` Rajat Jain
2022-01-28 7:48 ` Mika Westerberg
2022-01-28 21:34 ` Rajat Jain
2022-01-30 14:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2022-01-31 6:41 ` Mika Westerberg
2022-01-31 19:57 ` Rajat Jain
2022-02-02 2:05 ` Rajat Jain
2022-01-28 9:55 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2022-01-25 14:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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