On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 10:50:36AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote: > The bus_type structure defines dma_configure() callback for bus drivers > to configure DMA on the devices. This adds the paired dma_unconfigure() > callback and calls it during driver unbinding so that bus drivers can do > some cleanup work. > > One use case for this paired DMA callbacks is for the bus driver to check > for DMA ownership conflicts during driver binding, where multiple devices > belonging to a same IOMMU group (the minimum granularity of isolation and > protection) may be assigned to kernel drivers or user space respectively. > > Without this change, for example, the vfio driver has to listen to a bus > BOUND_DRIVER event and then BUG_ON() in case of dma ownership conflict. > This leads to bad user experience since careless driver binding operation > may crash the system if the admin overlooks the group restriction. Aside > from bad design, this leads to a security problem as a root user, even with > lockdown=integrity, can force the kernel to BUG. > > With this change, the bus driver could check and set the DMA ownership in > driver binding process and fail on ownership conflicts. The DMA ownership > should be released during driver unbinding. > > Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <j...@nvidia.com> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20210922123931.gi327...@nvidia.com/ > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20210928115751.gk964...@nvidia.com/ > Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu...@linux.intel.com> > --- > include/linux/device/bus.h | 3 +++ > drivers/base/dd.c | 7 ++++++- > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/device/bus.h b/include/linux/device/bus.h > index a039ab809753..ef54a71e5f8f 100644 > --- a/include/linux/device/bus.h > +++ b/include/linux/device/bus.h > @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ struct fwnode_handle; > * bus supports. > * @dma_configure: Called to setup DMA configuration on a device on > * this bus. > + * @dma_unconfigure: Called to cleanup DMA configuration on a device on > + * this bus.
"dma_cleanup()" is a better name for this, don't you think? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu
