ACK/CMNT: [PATCH 0/5] [Cosmic] iommu: add kernel dma protection

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Fri Mar 29 05:58:21 UTC 2019


On 2019-03-28 17:19:51 , Tyler Hicks wrote:
> On 2019-03-15 13:07:39, Aaron Ma wrote:
> > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1820153
> > 
> > [Impact]
> > OS can use IOMMU to defend against DMA attacks from a PCI device like thunderbolt one.
> > Intel adds DMA_CTRL_PLATFORM_OPT_IN_FLAG flag in DMAR ACPI table.
> > Use this flag to enable IOMMU and use _DSD to identify untrusted PCI devices.
> > 
> > [Fix]
> > Enable IOMMU when BIOS supports DMA opt in flag and ExternalFacingPort in _DSD.
> > Disable ATS on the untrusted PCI device.
> > 
> > [Test]
> > Tested on 2 Intel platforms that supports DMA opt in flag with a thunderbolt dock station.
> > iommu enabled as expected with this fix.
> > 
> > [Regression Potential]
> > Upstream fix, Verified on supported platforms, no affection on not supported platforms.
> > Backported changes are fairly minimal.
> > 
> > These patches are included in 5.0 kernel, disco is good.
> 
> These look good to me but you are missing one fixup:
> 
> d8b859105457 iommu/vt-d: Disable ATS support on untrusted devices
> 
> With that,
> 
> Acked-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at canonical.com>
> 

This patchset was already applied with ACKs from Hui and Stefan.
Does anything need to change in regards to this new comment?



> Tyler
> 
> > 
> > Lu Baolu (1):
> >   iommu/vt-d: Force IOMMU on for platform opt in hint
> > 
> > Mika Westerberg (4):
> >   ACPI / property: Allow multiple property compatible _DSD entries
> >   PCI / ACPI: Identify untrusted PCI devices
> >   iommu/vt-d: Do not enable ATS for untrusted devices
> >   thunderbolt: Export IOMMU based DMA protection support to userspace
> > 
> >  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-thunderbolt         |   9 ++
> >  Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst     |  20 ++++
> >  drivers/acpi/property.c                       | 105 +++++++++++++-----
> >  drivers/acpi/x86/apple.c                      |   2 +-
> >  drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c                   |   2 +-
> >  drivers/iommu/dmar.c                          |  25 +++++
> >  drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c                   |  56 +++++++++-
> >  drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c                        |  19 ++++
> >  drivers/pci/probe.c                           |  15 +++
> >  drivers/thunderbolt/domain.c                  |  17 +++
> >  include/acpi/acpi_bus.h                       |   8 +-
> >  include/linux/acpi.h                          |   9 ++
> >  include/linux/dmar.h                          |   8 ++
> >  include/linux/pci.h                           |   8 ++
> >  14 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.17.1
> > 
> > 
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