From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>, Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>, "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@intel.com>, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, "parav@mellanox.com" <parav@mellanox.com>, "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net>, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Shenming Lu <lushenming@huawei.com>, "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Subject: Re: Plan for /dev/ioasid RFC v2 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 10:56:01 -0600 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20210615105601.4d7b8906.alex.williamson@redhat.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <MWHPR11MB1886A6B3AC4AD249405E5B178C309@MWHPR11MB1886.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 01:21:35 +0000 "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com> wrote: > > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> > > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2021 9:38 PM > > > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 03:09:31AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote: > > > > > If a device can be always blocked from accessing memory in the IOMMU > > > before it's bound to a driver or more specifically before the driver > > > moves it to a new security context, then there is no need for VFIO > > > to track whether IOASIDfd has taken over ownership of the DMA > > > context for all devices within a group. > > > > I've been assuming we'd do something like this, where when a device is > > first turned into a VFIO it tells the IOMMU layer that this device > > should be DMA blocked unless an IOASID is attached to > > it. Disconnecting an IOASID returns it to blocked. > > Or just make sure a device is in block-DMA when it's unbound from a > driver or a security context. Then no need to explicitly tell IOMMU layer > to do so when it's bound to a new driver. > > Currently the default domain type applies even when a device is not > bound. This implies that if iommu=passthrough a device is always > allowed to access arbitrary system memory with or without a driver. > I feel the current domain type (identity, dma, unmanged) should apply > only when a driver is loaded... Note that vfio does not currently require all devices in the group to be bound to drivers. Other devices within the group, those bound to vfio drivers, can be used in this configuration. This is not necessarily recommended though as a non-vfio, non-stub driver binding to one of those devices can trigger a BUG_ON. > > > If this works I didn't see the need for vfio to keep the sequence. > > > VFIO still keeps group fd to claim ownership of all devices in a > > > group. > > > > As Alex says you still have to deal with the problem that device A in > > a group can gain control of device B in the same group. > > There is no isolation in the group then how could vfio prevent device > A from gaining control of device B? for example when both are attached > to the same GPA address space with device MMIO bar included, devA > can do p2p to devB. It's all user's policy how to deal with devices within > the group. The latter is user policy, yes, but it's a system security issue that the user cannot use device A to control device B if the user doesn't have access to both devices, ie. doesn't own the group. vfio would prevent this by not allowing access to device A while device B is insecure and would require that all devices within the group remain in a secure, user owned state for the extent of access to device A. > > This means device A and B can not be used from to two different > > security contexts. > > It depends on how the security context is defined. From iommu layer > p.o.v, an IOASID is a security context which isolates a device from > the rest of the system (but not the sibling in the same group). As you > suggested earlier, it's completely sane if an user wants to attach > devices in a group to different IOASIDs. Here I just talk about this fact. This is sane, yes, but that doesn't give us license to allow the user to access device A regardless of the state of device B. > > > > If the /dev/iommu FD is the security context then the tracking is > > needed there. > > > > As I replied to Alex, my point is that VFIO doesn't need to know the > attaching status of each device in a group before it can allow user to > access a device. As long as a device in a group either in block DMA > or switch to a new address space created via /dev/iommu FD, there's > no problem to allow user accessing it. User cannot do harm to the > world outside of the group. User knows there is no isolation within > the group. that is it. This is self contradictory, "vfio doesn't need to know the attachment status"... "[a]s long as a device in a group either in block DMA or switch to a new address space". So vfio does need to know the latter. How does it know that? Thanks, Alex
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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com> Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>, "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@intel.com>, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>, "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>, Shenming Lu <lushenming@huawei.com>, Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>, "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>, "parav@mellanox.com" <parav@mellanox.com> Subject: Re: Plan for /dev/ioasid RFC v2 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 10:56:01 -0600 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20210615105601.4d7b8906.alex.williamson@redhat.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <MWHPR11MB1886A6B3AC4AD249405E5B178C309@MWHPR11MB1886.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 01:21:35 +0000 "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com> wrote: > > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> > > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2021 9:38 PM > > > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 03:09:31AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote: > > > > > If a device can be always blocked from accessing memory in the IOMMU > > > before it's bound to a driver or more specifically before the driver > > > moves it to a new security context, then there is no need for VFIO > > > to track whether IOASIDfd has taken over ownership of the DMA > > > context for all devices within a group. > > > > I've been assuming we'd do something like this, where when a device is > > first turned into a VFIO it tells the IOMMU layer that this device > > should be DMA blocked unless an IOASID is attached to > > it. Disconnecting an IOASID returns it to blocked. > > Or just make sure a device is in block-DMA when it's unbound from a > driver or a security context. Then no need to explicitly tell IOMMU layer > to do so when it's bound to a new driver. > > Currently the default domain type applies even when a device is not > bound. This implies that if iommu=passthrough a device is always > allowed to access arbitrary system memory with or without a driver. > I feel the current domain type (identity, dma, unmanged) should apply > only when a driver is loaded... Note that vfio does not currently require all devices in the group to be bound to drivers. Other devices within the group, those bound to vfio drivers, can be used in this configuration. This is not necessarily recommended though as a non-vfio, non-stub driver binding to one of those devices can trigger a BUG_ON. > > > If this works I didn't see the need for vfio to keep the sequence. > > > VFIO still keeps group fd to claim ownership of all devices in a > > > group. > > > > As Alex says you still have to deal with the problem that device A in > > a group can gain control of device B in the same group. > > There is no isolation in the group then how could vfio prevent device > A from gaining control of device B? for example when both are attached > to the same GPA address space with device MMIO bar included, devA > can do p2p to devB. It's all user's policy how to deal with devices within > the group. The latter is user policy, yes, but it's a system security issue that the user cannot use device A to control device B if the user doesn't have access to both devices, ie. doesn't own the group. vfio would prevent this by not allowing access to device A while device B is insecure and would require that all devices within the group remain in a secure, user owned state for the extent of access to device A. > > This means device A and B can not be used from to two different > > security contexts. > > It depends on how the security context is defined. From iommu layer > p.o.v, an IOASID is a security context which isolates a device from > the rest of the system (but not the sibling in the same group). As you > suggested earlier, it's completely sane if an user wants to attach > devices in a group to different IOASIDs. Here I just talk about this fact. This is sane, yes, but that doesn't give us license to allow the user to access device A regardless of the state of device B. > > > > If the /dev/iommu FD is the security context then the tracking is > > needed there. > > > > As I replied to Alex, my point is that VFIO doesn't need to know the > attaching status of each device in a group before it can allow user to > access a device. As long as a device in a group either in block DMA > or switch to a new address space created via /dev/iommu FD, there's > no problem to allow user accessing it. User cannot do harm to the > world outside of the group. User knows there is no isolation within > the group. that is it. This is self contradictory, "vfio doesn't need to know the attachment status"... "[a]s long as a device in a group either in block DMA or switch to a new address space". So vfio does need to know the latter. How does it know that? Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu
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