Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/iommu: fix incorrect bit operations in setting values

From: Li, ZhenHua
Date: Wed Nov 05 2014 - 02:36:22 EST


Hi Joerg,

While debugging Bill's patches, I found this problem:
When copying iommu data from old kernel to the kdump kernel, the original function context_set_address_root() may cause kdump kernel using incorrect address root value.

So I created this patch to fix it.

Zhenhua

On 11/05/2014 03:30 PM, Li, Zhen-Hua wrote:
The function context_set_address_root() and set_root_value are setting new
address in a wrong way, and this patch is trying to fix this problem.

According to Intel Vt-d specs(Feb 2011, Revision 1.3), Chapter 9.1 and 9.2,
field ctp in root entry is using bits 12:63, field asr in context entry is
using bits 12:63.

To set these fields, the following functions are used:
static inline void context_set_address_root(struct context_entry *context,
unsigned long value);
and
static inline void set_root_value(struct root_entry *root, unsigned long value)

But they are using an invalid method to set these fields, in current code, only
a '|' operator is used to set it. This will not set the asr to the expected
value if it has an old value.

For example:
Before calling this function,
context->lo = 0x3456789012111;
value = 0x123456789abcef12;

After we call context_set_address_root(context, value), expected result is
context->lo == 0x123456789abce111;

But the actual result is:
context->lo == 0x1237577f9bbde111;

So we need to clear bits 12:63 before setting the new value, this will fix
this problem.

Signed-off-by: Li, Zhen-Hua <zhen-hual@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
index a27d6cb..11ac47b 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ static inline void set_root_present(struct root_entry *root)
}
static inline void set_root_value(struct root_entry *root, unsigned long value)
{
+ root->val &= ~VTD_PAGE_MASK;
root->val |= value & VTD_PAGE_MASK;
}

@@ -247,6 +248,7 @@ static inline void context_set_translation_type(struct context_entry *context,
static inline void context_set_address_root(struct context_entry *context,
unsigned long value)
{
+ context->lo &= ~VTD_PAGE_MASK;
context->lo |= value & VTD_PAGE_MASK;
}



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