linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/6] Add support for privileged mappings

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Date:	Fri,  8 Jul 2016 19:09:13 -0700
From:	Mitchel Humpherys <mitchelh@...eaurora.org>
To:	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Cc:	Jordan Crouse <jcrouse@...eaurora.org>,
	Jeremy Gebben <jgebben@...eaurora.org>,
	Patrick Daly <pdaly@...eaurora.org>,
	Pratik Patel <pratikp@...eaurora.org>,
	Mitchel Humpherys <mitchelh@...eaurora.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/6] Add support for privileged mappings

The following patch to the ARM SMMU driver:

    commit d346180e70b91b3d5a1ae7e5603e65593d4622bc
    Author: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
    Date:   Tue Jan 26 18:06:34 2016 +0000
    
        iommu/arm-smmu: Treat all device transactions as unprivileged

started forcing all SMMU transactions to come through as "unprivileged".
The rationale given was that:

  (1) There is no way in the IOMMU API to even request privileged mappings.

  (2) It's difficult to implement a DMA mapper that correctly models the
      ARM VMSAv8 behavior of unprivileged-writeable =>
      privileged-execute-never.

This series rectifies (1) by introducing an IOMMU API for privileged
mappings and implements it in io-pgtable-arm.

This series rectifies (2) by introducing a new dma attribute
(DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED_EXECUTABLE) for users of the DMA API that need
privileged, executable mappings, and implements it in the arm64 IOMMU DMA
mapper.  The one known user (pl330.c) is converted over to the new
attribute.

Jordan and Jeremy can provide more info on the use case if needed, but the
high level is that it's a security feature to prevent attacks such as [1].

[1] https://github.com/robclark/kilroy

Changelog:

  v1..v2

    - Added a new DMA attribute to make executable privileged mappings
      work, and use that in the pl330 driver (suggested by Will).


Jeremy Gebben (1):
  iommu/io-pgtable-arm: add support for the IOMMU_PRIV flag

Mitchel Humpherys (5):
  iommu: add IOMMU_PRIV attribute
  Revert "iommu/arm-smmu: Treat all device transactions as unprivileged"
  common: DMA-mapping: add DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED_EXECUTABLE attribute
  arm64/dma-mapping: Implement DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED_EXECUTABLE
  dmaengine: pl330: Make sure microcode is privileged-executable

 Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt |  9 +++++++++
 arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c      |  6 +++---
 drivers/dma/pl330.c              |  7 +++++--
 drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c         |  5 +----
 drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c        | 15 +++++++++++----
 drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c   | 16 +++++++++++-----
 include/linux/dma-attrs.h        |  1 +
 include/linux/dma-iommu.h        |  3 ++-
 include/linux/iommu.h            |  1 +
 9 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

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