Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] Add p2p via dmabuf to habanalabs

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 3:44 PM Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 3:31 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe I got the device security model all wrong, but I thought Guadi is
> > single user, and the only thing it protects is the system against the
> > Gaudi device trhough iommu/device gart. So roughly the following can
> > happen:
> >
> > 1. User A opens gaudi device, sets up dma-buf export
> >
> > 2. User A registers that with RDMA, or anything else that doesn't support
> > revoke.
> >
> > 3. User A closes gaudi device
> This can not happen without User A closing the FD of the dma-buf it exported.
> We prevent User A from closing the device because when it exported the
> dma-buf, the driver's code took a refcnt of the user's private
> structure. You can see that in export_dmabuf_common() in the 2nd
> patch. There is a call there to hl_ctx_get.
> So even if User A calls close(device_fd), the driver won't let any
> other user open the device until User A closes the fd of the dma-buf
> object.
>
> Moreover, once User A will close the dma-buf fd and the device is
> released, the driver will scrub the device memory (this is optional
> for systems who care about security).
>
> And AFAIK, User A can't close the dma-buf fd once it registered it
> with RDMA, without doing unregister.
> This can be seen in ib_umem_dmabuf_get() which calls dma_buf_get()
> which does fget(fd)

Adding Daniel, I don't know how his email got dropped when I replied to him...



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