Re: [PATCH v14 14/16] vfio/type1: Check doorbell safety

From: Diana Madalina Craciun
Date: Thu Nov 03 2016 - 10:00:10 EST


Hi Eric,

On 10/12/2016 04:23 PM, Eric Auger wrote:
> On x86 IRQ remapping is abstracted by the IOMMU. On ARM this is abstracted
> by the msi controller.
>
> Since we currently have no way to detect whether the MSI controller is
> upstream or downstream to the IOMMU we rely on the MSI doorbell information
> registered by the interrupt controllers. In case at least one doorbell
> does not implement proper isolation, we state the assignment is unsafe
> with regard to interrupts. This is a coarse assessment but should allow to
> wait for a better system description.
>
> At this point ARM sMMU still advertises IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP. This is
> removed in next patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> v13 -> v15:
> - check vfio_msi_resv before checking whether msi doorbell is safe
>
> v9 -> v10:
> - coarse safety assessment based on MSI doorbell info
>
> v3 -> v4:
> - rename vfio_msi_parent_irq_remapping_capable into vfio_safe_irq_domain
> and irq_remapping into safe_irq_domains
>
> v2 -> v3:
> - protect vfio_msi_parent_irq_remapping_capable with
> CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ_DOMAIN
> ---
> drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> index e0c97ef..c18ba9d 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> @@ -442,6 +442,29 @@ static void vfio_unmap_unpin(struct vfio_iommu *iommu, struct vfio_dma *dma)
> }
>
> /**
> + * vfio_msi_resv - Return whether any VFIO iommu domain requires
> + * MSI mapping
> + *
> + * @iommu: vfio iommu handle
> + *
> + * Return: true of MSI mapping is needed, false otherwise
> + */
> +static bool vfio_msi_resv(struct vfio_iommu *iommu)
> +{
> + struct iommu_domain_msi_resv msi_resv;
> + struct vfio_domain *d;
> + int ret;
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(d, &iommu->domain_list, next) {
> + ret = iommu_domain_get_attr(d->domain, DOMAIN_ATTR_MSI_RESV,
> + &msi_resv);
> + if (!ret)
> + return true;
> + }
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> * vfio_set_msi_aperture - Sets the msi aperture on all domains
> * requesting MSI mapping
> *
> @@ -945,8 +968,13 @@ static int vfio_iommu_type1_attach_group(void *iommu_data,
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&domain->group_list);
> list_add(&group->next, &domain->group_list);
>
> + /*
> + * to advertise safe interrupts either the IOMMU or the MSI controllers
> + * must support IRQ remapping (aka. interrupt translation)
> + */
> if (!allow_unsafe_interrupts &&
> - !iommu_capable(bus, IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP)) {
> + (!iommu_capable(bus, IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP) &&
> + !(vfio_msi_resv(iommu) && iommu_msi_doorbell_safe()))) {
> pr_warn("%s: No interrupt remapping support. Use the module param \"allow_unsafe_interrupts\" to enable VFIO IOMMU support on this platform\n",
> __func__);
> ret = -EPERM;

I understand from the other discussions that you will respin these
series, but anyway I have tested this version with GICV3 + ITS and it
stops here. As I have a GICv3 I am not supposed to enable allow unsafe
interrupts. What I see is that vfio_msi_resv returns false just because
the iommu->domain_list list is empty. The newly created domain is
actually added to the domain_list at the end of this function, so it
seems normal for the list to be empty at this point.

Thanks,

Diana