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

Aaron Ma aaron.ma at canonical.com
Fri Mar 29 06:32:45 UTC 2019



On 3/29/19 1:58 PM, Khaled Elmously wrote:
> 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?

This patch is merged in 5.1-rc1 after I send out this SRU.
I will append one more patch, just cherry-pick.
Please let me know if it is fine to do it like this way.

Test is done with one additional patch too.

Thanks,
Aaron


> 
> 
> 
>> 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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