Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] vfio/type1: Respect IOMMU reserved regions in vfio_test_domain_fgsp()

From: Alex Williamson
Date: Thu Jan 12 2023 - 14:11:11 EST


On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:44:27 +0100
Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since commit cbf7827bc5dc ("iommu/s390: Fix potential s390_domain
> aperture shrinking") the s390 IOMMU driver uses reserved regions for the
> system provided DMA ranges of PCI devices. Previously it reduced the
> size of the IOMMU aperture and checked it on each mapping operation.
> On current machines the system denies use of DMA addresses below 2^32 for
> all PCI devices.
>
> Usually mapping IOVAs in a reserved regions is harmless until a DMA
> actually tries to utilize the mapping. However on s390 there is
> a virtual PCI device called ISM which is implemented in firmware and
> used for cross LPAR communication. Unlike real PCI devices this device
> does not use the hardware IOMMU but inspects IOMMU translation tables
> directly on IOTLB flush (s390 RPCIT instruction). If it detects IOVA
> mappings outside the allowed ranges it goes into an error state. This
> error state then causes the device to be unavailable to the KVM guest.
>
> Analysing this we found that vfio_test_domain_fgsp() maps 2 pages at DMA
> address 0 irrespective of the IOMMUs reserved regions. Even if usually
> harmless this seems wrong in the general case so instead go through the
> freshly updated IOVA list and try to find a range that isn't reserved,
> and fits 2 pages, is PAGE_SIZE * 2 aligned. If found use that for
> testing for fine grained super pages.
>
> Fixes: af029169b8fd ("vfio/type1: Check reserved region conflict and update iova list")
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to vfio for-linus branch for v6.2. Thanks,

Alex