From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] memory: do not do out of bound notification
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:14:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190620081437.GA11135@xz-x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190620041400.GB9303@joy-OptiPlex-7040>
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:14:00AM -0400, Yan Zhao wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:02:30PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Auger Eric wrote:
> > > Hi Yan,
> > >
> > > [+ Peter]
> > >
> > > On 6/19/19 10:49 AM, Yan Zhao wrote:
> > > > even if an entry overlaps with notifier's range, should not map/unmap
> > > > out of bound part in the entry.
> > >
> > > I don't think the patch was based on the master as the trace at the very
> > > end if not part of the upstream code.
> > > >
> > > > This would cause problem in below case:
> > > > 1. initially there are two notifiers with ranges
> > > > 0-0xfedfffff, 0xfef00000-0xffffffffffffffff,
> > > > IOVAs from 0x3c000000 - 0x3c1fffff is in shadow page table.
> > > >
> > > > 2. in vfio, memory_region_register_iommu_notifier() is followed by
> > > > memory_region_iommu_replay(), which will first call address space unmap,
> > > > and walk and add back all entries in vtd shadow page table. e.g.
> > > > (1) for notifier 0-0xfedfffff,
> > > > IOVAs from 0 - 0xffffffff get unmapped,
> > > > and IOVAs from 0x3c000000 - 0x3c1fffff get mapped
> > >
> > > While the patch looks sensible, the issue is the notifier scope used in
> > > vtd_address_space_unmap is not a valid mask (ctpop64(size) != 1). Then
> > > the size is recomputed (either using n = 64 - clz64(size) for the 1st
> > > notifier or n = s->aw_bits for the 2d) and also the entry (especially
> > > for the 2d notifier where it becomes 0) to get a proper alignment.
> > >
> > > vtd_page_walk sends notifications per block or page (with valid
> > > addr_mask) so stays within the notifier.
> > >
> > > Modifying the entry->iova/addr_mask again in memory_region_notify_one
> > > leads to unaligned start address / addr_mask. I don't think we want that.
> > >
> > > Can't we modity the vtd_address_space_unmap() implementation to split
> > > the invalidation in smaller chunks instead?
> >
> > Seems workable, to be explicit - we can even cut it into chunks with
> > different size to be efficient. Like, this range:
> >
> > 0x0e00_0000 - 0x1_0000_0000 (size 0xf200_0000)
> >
> > can be one of this:
> >
> > 0x0e000000 - 0x1000_0000 (size 0x0200_0000)
> >
> > plus one of this:
> >
> > 0x1000_0000 - 0x1_0000_0000 (size 0xf000_0000)
> >
> > Yan, could you help explain the issue better on how to reproduce and
> > what's the error when the problem occurs? For example, is that
> > happened when a device hot-plugged into an existing VFIO container
> > (with some mapped IOVAs)? Did you get host DMA errors later on?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Peter Xu
>
> Hi Peter
> it happens when there's an RMRR region in my guest iommu driver.
Do you mean a RMRR region in the ACPI table? AFAIK current QEMU VT-d
does not have RMRR at all, so that's a customized QEMU?
> if not adding this range check, IOVAs in this region would be unmapped and DMA
> faults are met in host.
I see, thanks.
--
Peter Xu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-20 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-19 8:49 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] memory: do not do out of bound notification Yan Zhao
2019-06-19 13:17 ` Auger Eric
2019-06-20 1:46 ` Yan Zhao
2019-06-20 4:02 ` Peter Xu
2019-06-20 4:14 ` Yan Zhao
2019-06-20 8:14 ` Peter Xu [this message]
2019-06-20 8:13 ` Yan Zhao
2019-06-20 8:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-20 10:57 ` Yan Zhao
2019-06-20 12:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-20 12:59 ` Peter Xu
2019-06-20 13:04 ` Peter Xu
2019-06-24 5:22 ` Yan Zhao
2019-06-24 6:14 ` Peter Xu
2019-06-20 13:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-21 2:36 ` Peter Xu
2019-06-21 7:57 ` Yan Zhao
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