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Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:38:17 +0200
From:   Pierre Morel <pmorel@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     pasic@...ux.ibm.com, borntraeger@...ibm.com, frankja@...ux.ibm.com,
        mst@...hat.com, cohuck@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: protvirt: virtio: Refuse device without IOMMU



On 2020-06-12 11:21, Pierre Morel wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020-06-11 05:10, Jason Wang wrote:
>>
>> On 2020/6/10 下午9:11, Pierre Morel wrote:
>>> Protected Virtualisation protects the memory of the guest and
>>> do not allow a the host to access all of its memory.
>>>
>>> Let's refuse a VIRTIO device which does not use IOMMU
>>> protected access.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@...ux.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 5 +++++
>>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c 
>>> b/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
>>> index 5730572b52cd..06ffbc96587a 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
>>> @@ -986,6 +986,11 @@ static void virtio_ccw_set_status(struct 
>>> virtio_device *vdev, u8 status)
>>>       if (!ccw)
>>>           return;
>>> +    /* Protected Virtualisation guest needs IOMMU */
>>> +    if (is_prot_virt_guest() &&
>>> +        !__virtio_test_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM))
>>> +            status &= ~VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FEATURES_OK;
>>> +
>>>       /* Write the status to the host. */
>>>       vcdev->dma_area->status = status;
>>>       ccw->cmd_code = CCW_CMD_WRITE_STATUS;
>>
>>
>> I wonder whether we need move it to virtio core instead of ccw.
>>
>> I think the other memory protection technologies may suffer from this 
>> as well.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> 
> 
> What would you think of the following, also taking into account Connie's 
> comment on where the test should be done:
> 
> - declare a weak function in virtio.c code, returning that memory 
> protection is not in use.
> 
> - overwrite the function in the arch code
> 
> - call this function inside core virtio_finalize_features() and if 
> required fail if the device don't have VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM.
> 
> Alternative could be to test a global variable that the architecture 
> would overwrite if needed but I find the weak function solution more 
> flexible.
> 
> With a function, we also have the possibility to provide the device as 
> argument and take actions depending it, this may answer Halil's concern.
> 
> Regards,
> Pierre
> 

hum, in between I found another way which seems to me much better:

We already have the force_dma_unencrypted() function available which 
AFAIU is what we want for encrypted memory protection and is already 
used by power and x86 SEV/SME in a way that seems AFAIU compatible with 
our problem.

Even DMA and IOMMU are different things, I think they should be used 
together in our case.

What do you think?

The patch would then be something like:

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
index a977e32a88f2..53476d5bbe35 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  #include <linux/virtio_config.h>
  #include <linux/module.h>
  #include <linux/idr.h>
+#include <linux/dma-direct.h>
  #include <uapi/linux/virtio_ids.h>

  /* Unique numbering for virtio devices. */
@@ -179,6 +180,10 @@ int virtio_finalize_features(struct virtio_device *dev)
         if (!virtio_has_feature(dev, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1))
                 return 0;

+       if (force_dma_unencrypted(&dev->dev) &&
+           !virtio_has_feature(dev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM))
+               return -EIO;
+
         virtio_add_status(dev, VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FEATURES_OK);
         status = dev->config->get_status(dev);
         if (!(status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FEATURES_OK)) {


Regards,
Pierre

-- 
Pierre Morel
IBM Lab Boeblingen