linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] PCI/P2PDMA: Clear ACS P2P flags for all devices behind switches

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Date:   Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:15:36 -0600
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     Stephen Bates <sbates@...thlin.com>
Cc:     Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        "linux-block@...r.kernel.org" <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Max Gurtovoy <maxg@...lanox.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] PCI/P2PDMA: Clear ACS P2P flags for all devices
 behind switches

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 06:54:01PM +0000, Stephen  Bates wrote:
> Thanks for the detailed review Bjorn!
> 
> >> +	  Enabling this option will also disable ACS on all ports behind
> >> +	  any PCIe switch. This effictively puts all devices behind any
> >> +	  switch into the same IOMMU group.
> 
> >  Does this really mean "all devices behind the same Root Port"?
> 
> Not necessarily. You might have a cascade of switches (i.e switches
> below a switch) to achieve a very large fan-out (in an NVMe SSD
> array for example) and we will only disable ACS on the ports below
> the relevant switch.

The question is what the relevant switch is.  We call pci_enable_acs()
on every PCI device, including Root Ports.  It looks like this relies
on get_upstream_bridge_port() to filter out some things.  I don't
think get_upstream_bridge_port() is doing the right thing, so we need
to sort that out first, I guess.

> > What does this mean in terms of device security?  I assume it means,
> > at least, that individual devices can't be assigned to separate VMs.
> 
> This was discussed during v1 [1]. Disabling ACS on all downstream
> ports of the switch means that all the EPs below it have to part of
> the same IOMMU grouping. However it was also agreed that as long as
> the ACS disable occurred at boot time (which is does in v2) then the
> virtualization layer will be aware of it and will perform the IOMMU
> group formation correctly.
>     
> > I don't mind admitting that this patch makes me pretty nervous, and I
> > don't have a clear idea of what the implications of this are, or how
> > to communicate those to end users.  "The same IOMMU group" is a pretty
> > abstract idea.
>     
> Alex gave a good overview of the implications in [1].
> 
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m=151512320031739&w=2

This might be a good start, but whatever the implications are, they
need to be distilled and made clear directly in the changelog and the
Kconfig help text.

Bjorn