linux-kernel - Re: Plan for /dev/ioasid RFC v2

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Message-ID: <20210614133819.GH1002214@nvidia.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 Jun 2021 10:38:19 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
Cc:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
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        "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@...ux.net>,
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        Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
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        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Plan for /dev/ioasid RFC v2

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 03:09:31AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:

> If a device can be always blocked from accessing memory in the IOMMU
> before it's bound to a driver or more specifically before the driver
> moves it to a new security context, then there is no need for VFIO
> to track whether IOASIDfd has taken over ownership of the DMA
> context for all devices within a group.

I've been assuming we'd do something like this, where when a device is
first turned into a VFIO it tells the IOMMU layer that this device
should be DMA blocked unless an IOASID is attached to
it. Disconnecting an IOASID returns it to blocked.

> If this works I didn't see the need for vfio to keep the sequence. 
> VFIO still keeps group fd to claim ownership of all devices in a 
> group.

As Alex says you still have to deal with the problem that device A in
a group can gain control of device B in the same group.

This means device A and B can not be used from to two different
security contexts.

If the /dev/iommu FD is the security context then the tracking is
needed there.

Jason