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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:29:38 +0200
From: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>,
Christoph Hellwig
<hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
Gerald Schaefer
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Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>, Vasily
Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
Sven Schnelle
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Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>,
Jason
Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] vfio/pci: Tolerate oversized BARs by disallowing
mmap
On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 14:06 +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-06-19 at 21:09 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 12:56:47PM +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> > > In short, the ISM BAR 0 is stupidly large but this is
> > > intentional. It not fitting in the VMAP is simply the least crazy
> > > filter I could come up with to keep the ISM device from causing
> > > trouble for use of vfio-pci mmap() for other, normal, PCI
> > > devices.
> >
> > Then maybe add a PCI quirk to prevent mapping it. This would also
> > affect the sysfs resource0 file unless I'm missing something.
> >
>
> The resource<N> files are globally disabled on s390x due to lack of
> HAVE_PCI_MMAP/ARCH_GENERIC_PCI_MMAP_RESOURCE at the moment. I might
> change that in the future with a analogous argument as for
> VFIO_PCI_MMAP but for its not there. Once we add it we of course need
> the same special ISM treatment there too.
>
> Looking at the existing PCI quirks I don't see anything that would
> fit so I'm guessing you would want to add a new quirk? As I
> understand it we would then have to export something like a
> is_pci_mmap_broken(pdev) function while currently the only quirk
> function that seems to be exported is pxi_fixup_device(). But then
> what happens if CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=n? Also the header comment in
> drivers/pci/quirks.c says that platform specific devices shouldn't go
> in there and ISM is platform specific.
I took a cursory look at that file as well and arrived at a similar
conclusion that drivers/pci/quirks.c (as is) does not sound like a good
match for the required functionality
> Instead of exporting IOREMAP_START/IOREMAP_END maybe there is another
> reasonable maximum resource length? Or maybe we could create a size_t
> ioremap_area_size() helper similar to is_ioremap_addr() but not
> inlined. The latter already uses IOREMAP_START/IOREMAP_END so not
> sure how that works when IOREMAP_END is not exported?
But seeing how the PCI quirks filter against Vendor and Device ID,
I just had the idea if it would make sense to create a similar
infrastructure in the form of VFIO PCI quirks - and simply reject mmap
on ISM devices regardless of the size of iomap'able address spaces?
Sound rather coarse-grained, though...
> Thanks,
> Niklas
Just a thought,
Gerd
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