Re: [PATCH -tip/apic 2/2] x86/MSI: Allocate as manymultiple-MSIs as requested

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Mon Apr 29 2013 - 03:21:38 EST


>>> On 29.04.13 at 06:33, Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- a/drivers/iommu/irq_remapping.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/irq_remapping.c
> @@ -55,19 +55,19 @@ static int do_setup_msi_irqs(struct pci_dev *dev, int nvec)
> unsigned int irq;
> struct msi_desc *msidesc;
>
> - nvec = __roundup_pow_of_two(nvec);
> -
> WARN_ON(!list_is_singular(&dev->msi_list));
> msidesc = list_entry(dev->msi_list.next, struct msi_desc, list);
> WARN_ON(msidesc->irq);
> WARN_ON(msidesc->msi_attrib.multiple);
> + WARN_ON(msidesc->nvec);
>
> node = dev_to_node(&dev->dev);
> irq = __create_irqs(get_nr_irqs_gsi(), nvec, node);
> if (irq == 0)
> return -ENOSPC;
>
> - msidesc->msi_attrib.multiple = ilog2(nvec);
> + msidesc->nvec = nvec;
> + msidesc->msi_attrib.multiple = ilog2(__roundup_pow_of_two(nvec));
> for (sub_handle = 0; sub_handle < nvec; sub_handle++) {
> if (!sub_handle) {
> index = msi_alloc_remapped_irq(dev, irq, nvec);

This breaks the interface to IOMMU-specific code: While Intel's
implementation does bump the number of allocated IRTEs to a
power of 2, AMD's doesn't, and hence the tail entries in the block
that don't get allocated here can get used for another device,
thus creating a security hole when both devices aren't owned by
the same guest (with the host being considered a special kind of
guest for this purpose).

IOW, while you can conserve on the number of vectors allocated,
you can't on the IRTEs, and I think this should be taken care of in
the generic IOMMU code, not in the individual vendor
implementations.

Jan

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