Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] vfio/hisilicon: register the driver to vfio

[liulongfang <liulongfang@huawei.com>]

On 2021/4/21 7:18, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 04:04:57PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> 
>>> The migration control registers must be on a different VF from the VF
>>> being plugged into a guest and the two VFs have to be in different
>>> IOMMU groups to ensure they are isolated from each other.
>>
>> I think that's a solution, I don't know if it's the only solution.
> 
> Maybe, but that approach does offer DMA access for the migration. For
> instance to implement something that needs a lot of data like
> migrating a complicated device state, or dirty page tracking or
> whatver.
> 
> This driver seems very simple - it has only 17 state elements - and
> doesn't use DMA.
> 
Yes，the operating address of this driver is the MMIO address,
not the DMA address, but the internal hardware DMA address is used
as data for migration.

> I can't quite tell, but does this pass the hypervisor BAR into the
> guest anyhow? That would certainly be an adquate statement that it is
> safe, assuming someone did a good security analysis.
> 
>> ways and it's not very interesting.  If the user can manipulate device
>> state in order to trigger an exploit of the host-side kernel driver,
>> that's obviously more of a problem.
> 
> Well, for instance, we have an implementation of
> (VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_SAVING | VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_RUNNING) which means the
> guest CPUs are still running and a hostile guest can be manipulating
> the device.
> 
> But this driver is running code, like vf_qm_state_pre_save() in this
> state. Looks very suspicious.
> 
> One quick attack I can imagine is to use the guest CPU to DOS the
> migration and permanently block it, eg by causing qm_mb() or other
> looping functions to fail.
> 
> There may be worse things possible, it is a bit hard to tell just from
> the code.
> 
> .. also drivers should not be open coding ARM assembly as in
> qm_mb_write()
> 
OK, these codes need to be encapsulated and should not be presented in
this driver.

> .. and also, code can not randomly call pci_get_drvdata() on a struct
> device it isn't attached to haven't verified the right driver is
> bound, or locked correctly.
> 
Yes, This call needs to be placed in an encapsulation interface,
and access protection needs to be added.

>> manipulate the BAR size to expose only the operational portion of MMIO
>> to the VM and use the remainder to support migration itself.  I'm
>> afraid that just like mdev, the vfio migration uAPI is going to be used
>> as an excuse to create kernel drivers simply to be able to make use of
>> that uAPI.
> 
> I thought that is the general direction people had agreed on during
> the IDXD mdev discussion?
> 
> People want the IOCTLs from VFIO to be the single API to program all
> the VMMs to and to not implement user space drivers..
> 
> This actually seems like a great candidate for a userspace driver.
> 
> I would like to know we are still settled on this direction as the
> mlx5 drivers we are working on also have some complicated option to be
> user space only.
> 
> Jason
> .
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