linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] iommu/vt-d: Do not enable ATS for external devices

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Date:   Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:53:28 -0800
From:   "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>
To:     Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Jacob jun Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>,
        Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@...il.com>,
        Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@...el.com>,
        Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@...il.com>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        Christian Kellner <ckellner@...hat.com>,
        Mario.Limonciello@...l.com,
        Anthony Wong <anthony.wong@...onical.com>,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] iommu/vt-d: Do not enable ATS for external devices

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 07:06:27PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> Currently Linux automatically enables ATS (Address Translation Service)
> for any device that supports it (and IOMMU is turned on). ATS is used to
> accelerate DMA access as the device can cache translations locally so
> there is no need to do full translation on IOMMU side. However, as
> pointed out in [1] ATS can be used to bypass IOMMU based security
> completely by simply sending PCIe read/write transaction with AT
> (Address Translation) field set to "translated".
> 
> To mitigate this modify the Intel IOMMU code so that it does not enable
> ATS for any device that is marked as being external. In case this turns
> out to cause performance issues we may selectively allow ATS based on
> user decision but currently use big hammer and disable it completely to
> be on the safe side.
> 
> [1] https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274352
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>

> ---
>  drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> index ada786b05a59..b79788da6971 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> @@ -1473,7 +1473,8 @@ static void iommu_enable_dev_iotlb(struct device_domain_info *info)
>  	if (info->pri_supported && !pci_reset_pri(pdev) && !pci_enable_pri(pdev, 32))
>  		info->pri_enabled = 1;
>  #endif
> -	if (info->ats_supported && !pci_enable_ats(pdev, VTD_PAGE_SHIFT)) {
> +	if (!pdev->is_external && info->ats_supported &&
> +	    !pci_enable_ats(pdev, VTD_PAGE_SHIFT)) {
>  		info->ats_enabled = 1;
>  		domain_update_iotlb(info->domain);
>  		info->ats_qdep = pci_ats_queue_depth(pdev);
> -- 
> 2.19.1
>