Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] Fixes for dma-iommu swiotlb bounce buffers

From: Rajat Jain
Date: Mon Aug 30 2021 - 13:03:34 EST


I'm wondering why I don't see v7 on these patches on patchwork (these
patches on https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/project/lkml/list/?series=&submitter=27643&state=&q=&archive=&delegate=)
?

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 10:00 PM David Stevens <stevensd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch set includes various fixes for dma-iommu's swiotlb bounce
> buffers for untrusted devices.
>
> The min_align_mask issue was found when running fio on an untrusted nvme
> device with bs=512. The other issues were found via code inspection, so
> I don't have any specific use cases where things were not working, nor
> any concrete performance numbers.
>
> There are two issues related to min_align_mask that this patch series
> does not attempt to fix. First, it does not address the case where
> min_align_mask is larger than the IOVA granule. Doing so requires
> changes to IOVA allocation, and is not specific to when swiotlb bounce
> buffers are used. This is not a problem in practice today, since the
> only driver which uses min_align_mask is nvme, which sets it to 4096.
>
> The second issue this series does not address is the fact that extra
> swiotlb slots adjacent to a bounce buffer can be exposed to untrusted
> devices whose drivers use min_align_mask. Fixing this requires being
> able to allocate padding slots at the beginning of a swiotlb allocation.
> This is a rather significant change that I am not comfortable making.
> Without being able to handle this, there is also little point to
> clearing the padding at the start of such a buffer, since we can only
> clear based on (IO_TLB_SIZE - 1) instead of iova_mask.
>
> v6 -> v7:
> - Remove unsafe attempt to clear padding at start of swiotlb buffer
> - Rewrite commit message for min_align_mask commit to better explain
> the problem it's fixing
> - Rebase on iommu/core
> - Acknowledge unsolved issues in cover letter
>
> v5 -> v6:
> - Remove unnecessary line break
> - Remove redundant config check
>
> v4 -> v5:
> - Fix xen build error
> - Move _swiotlb refactor into its own patch
>
> v3 -> v4:
> - Fold _swiotlb functions into _page functions
> - Add patch to align swiotlb buffer to iovad granule
> - Combine if checks in iommu_dma_sync_sg_* functions
>
> v2 -> v3:
> - Add new patch to address min_align_mask bug
> - Set SKIP_CPU_SYNC flag after syncing in map/unmap
> - Properly call arch_sync_dma_for_cpu in iommu_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - Split fixes into dedicated patches
> - Less invasive changes to fix arch_sync when mapping
> - Leave dev_is_untrusted check for strict iommu
>
> David Stevens (7):
> dma-iommu: fix sync_sg with swiotlb
> dma-iommu: fix arch_sync_dma for map
> dma-iommu: skip extra sync during unmap w/swiotlb
> dma-iommu: fold _swiotlb helpers into callers
> dma-iommu: Check CONFIG_SWIOTLB more broadly
> swiotlb: support aligned swiotlb buffers
> dma-iommu: account for min_align_mask w/swiotlb
>
> drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c | 188 +++++++++++++++++---------------------
> drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/swiotlb.h | 3 +-
> kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 11 ++-
> 4 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.33.0.259.gc128427fd7-goog
>