From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
cohuck@redhat.com, jgg@ziepe.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] vfio-pci: Block user access to disabled device MMIO
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 17:59:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200507215908.GQ228260@xz-x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <158871401328.15589.17598154478222071285.stgit@gimli.home>
On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 03:54:36PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> v2:
>
> Locking in 3/ is substantially changed to avoid the retry scenario
> within the fault handler, therefore a caller who does not allow retry
> will no longer receive a SIGBUS on contention. IOMMU invalidations
> are still not included here, I expect that will be a future follow-on
> change as we're not fundamentally changing that issue in this series.
> The 'add to vma list only on fault' behavior is also still included
> here, per the discussion I think it's still a valid approach and has
> some advantages, particularly in a VM scenario where we potentially
> defer the mapping until the MMIO BAR is actually DMA mapped into the
> VM address space (or the guest driver actually accesses the device
> if that DMA mapping is eliminated at some point). Further discussion
> and review appreciated. Thanks,
Hi, Alex,
I have a general question on the series.
IIUC this series tries to protect illegal vfio userspace writes to device MMIO
regions which may cause platform-level issues. That makes perfect sense to me.
However what if the write comes from the devices' side? E.g.:
- Device A maps MMIO region X
- Device B do VFIO_IOMMU_DMA_MAP on Device A's MMIO region X
(so X's MMIO PFNs are mapped in device B's IOMMU page table)
- Device A clears PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY (reset, etc.)
- this should zap all existing vmas that mapping region X, however device
B's IOMMU page table is not aware of this?
- Device B writes to MMIO region X of device A even if PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY
cleared on device A's PCI_COMMAND register
Could this happen?
Thanks,
--
Peter Xu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-07 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-05 21:54 [PATCH v2 0/3] vfio-pci: Block user access to disabled device MMIO Alex Williamson
2020-05-05 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] vfio/type1: Support faulting PFNMAP vmas Alex Williamson
2020-05-07 21:24 ` Peter Xu
2020-05-07 21:47 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-07 23:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-08 2:19 ` Peter Xu
2020-05-08 12:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-08 14:30 ` Peter Xu
2020-05-08 15:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-08 15:42 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-08 16:05 ` Peter Xu
2020-05-08 18:39 ` Peter Xu
2020-05-05 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] vfio-pci: Fault mmaps to enable vma tracking Alex Williamson
2020-05-07 21:47 ` Peter Xu
2020-05-07 22:03 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-07 22:22 ` Peter Xu
2020-05-07 23:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-08 2:16 ` Peter Xu
2020-05-08 6:44 ` Jason Wang
2020-05-08 14:27 ` Peter Xu
2020-05-08 12:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-08 14:26 ` Peter Xu
2020-05-05 21:55 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] vfio-pci: Invalidate mmaps and block MMIO access on disabled memory Alex Williamson
2020-05-22 2:39 ` Qian Cai
2020-05-22 4:18 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-07 21:59 ` Peter Xu [this message]
2020-05-07 22:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] vfio-pci: Block user access to disabled device MMIO Alex Williamson
2020-05-08 2:31 ` Peter Xu
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