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Message-ID: <20210914080213-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:04:07 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory
 via /dev/mem

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 01:57:25PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 14.09.21 13:52, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:45:25AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > On 03.09.21 09:02, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 06:09:19PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > > > We don't want user space to be able to map virtio-mem device memory
> > > > > directly (e.g., via /dev/mem) in order to have guarantees that in a sane
> > > > > setup we'll never accidentially access unplugged memory within the
> > > > > device-managed region of a virtio-mem device, just as required by the
> > > > > virtio-spec.
> > > > > 
> > > > > As soon as the virtio-mem driver is loaded, the device region is visible
> > > > > in /proc/iomem via the parent device region. From that point on user space
> > > > > is aware of the device region and we want to disallow mapping anything
> > > > > inside that region (where we will dynamically (un)plug memory) until
> > > > > the driver has been unloaded cleanly and e.g., another driver might take
> > > > > over.
> > > > > 
> > > > > By creating our parent IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM resource with
> > > > > IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE, we will disallow any /dev/mem access to our
> > > > > device region until the driver was unloaded cleanly and removed the
> > > > > parent region. This will work even though only some memory blocks are
> > > > > actually currently added to Linux and appear as busy in the resource tree.
> > > > > 
> > > > > So access to the region from user space is only possible
> > > > > a) if we don't load the virtio-mem driver.
> > > > > b) after unloading the virtio-mem driver cleanly.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Don't build virtio-mem if access to /dev/mem cannot be restricticted --
> > > > > if we have CONFIG_DEVMEM=y but CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > ---
> > > > >    drivers/virtio/Kconfig      | 1 +
> > > > >    drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c | 4 +++-
> > > > >    2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> > > > > index ce1b3f6ec325..ff80cd03f1d1 100644
> > > > > --- a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> > > > > @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ config VIRTIO_MEM
> > > > >    	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
> > > > >    	depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
> > > > >    	depends on CONTIG_ALLOC
> > > > > +	depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM
> > > > >    	help
> > > > >    	 This driver provides access to virtio-mem paravirtualized memory
> > > > >    	 devices, allowing to hotplug and hotunplug memory.
> > > > 
> > > > It would be nicer if there was a symbol in the MEMORY_ namespace
> > > > we can depend on exported by mm and depending on !DEVMEM ||
> > > > STRICT_DEVMEM.
> > > > 
> > > > E.g.
> > > > 
> > > > config MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE
> > > >           def_bool y
> > > >           depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM
> > > > 
> > > > and then in virtio
> > > > 	depends on MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes, but I'm not able to come up with an expressive name. MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE
> > > can be highly misleading ...
> > 
> > 
> > I mean ... it enables IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE ... but ok ...
> > MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE_KERNEL_MAP ?
> 
> It enables IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE for IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM ... and notably
> not for IORESOURCE_MEM.
> 
> MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM ?


OK.


> > 
> > > 
> > > > the virtio change itself is ok though:
> > > > 
> > > > Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > David / dhildenb
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> 
> David / dhildenb