Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Serialize IOMMU GCMD register modifications

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Fri Sep 04 2020 - 05:39:50 EST


On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 08:06:15AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> The VT-d spec requires (10.4.4 Global Command Register, GCMD_REG General
> Description) that:
>
> If multiple control fields in this register need to be modified, software
> must serialize the modifications through multiple writes to this register.
>
> However, in irq_remapping.c, modifications of IRE and CFI are done in one
> write. We need to do two separate writes with STS checking after each. It
> also checks the status register before writing command register to avoid
> unnecessary register write.
>
> Fixes: af8d102f999a4 ("x86/intel/irq_remapping: Clean up x2apic opt-out security warning mess")
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/intel/irq_remapping.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied for v5.9, thanks.