linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] iommu: Return -EMEDIUMTYPE for incompatible domain and device/group

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Date:   Fri, 1 Jul 2022 09:43:10 -0700
From:   Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] iommu: Return -EMEDIUMTYPE for incompatible
 domain and device/group

On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 11:21:48AM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:

> > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c
> > index 2ed3594f384e..072cac5ab5a4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c
> > @@ -1135,10 +1135,8 @@ static int arm_smmu_attach_dev(struct iommu_domain *domain, struct device *dev)
> >       struct arm_smmu_device *smmu;
> >       int ret;
> > 
> > -     if (!fwspec || fwspec->ops != &arm_smmu_ops) {
> > -             dev_err(dev, "cannot attach to SMMU, is it on the same bus?\n");
> > -             return -ENXIO;
> > -     }
> > +     if (!fwspec || fwspec->ops != &arm_smmu_ops)
> > +             return -EMEDIUMTYPE;
> 
> This is the wrong check, you want the "if (smmu_domain->smmu != smmu)"
> condition further down. If this one fails it's effectively because the
> device doesn't have an IOMMU at all, and similar to patch #3 it will be

Thanks for the review! I will fix that. The "on the same bus" is
quite eye-catching.

> removed once the core code takes over properly (I even have both those
> patches written now!)

Actually in my v1 the proposal for ops check returned -EMEDIUMTYPE
also upon an ops mismatch, treating that too as an incompatibility.
Do you mean that we should have fine-grained it further?