IOMMU_CACHE means that normal DMAs do not require any additional coherency mechanism and is the basic uAPI that VFIO exposes to userspace. For instance VFIO applications like DPDK will not work if additional coherency operations are required. Therefore check IOMMU_CAP_CACHE_COHERENCY like vdpa & usnic do before allowing an IOMMU backed VFIO device to be created. Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vfio/vfio.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c index a4555014bd1e72..9edad767cfdad3 100644 --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c @@ -815,6 +815,13 @@ static int __vfio_register_dev(struct vfio_device *device, int vfio_register_group_dev(struct vfio_device *device) { + /* + * VFIO always sets IOMMU_CACHE because we offer no way for userspace to + * restore cache coherency. + */ + if (!iommu_capable(device->dev->bus, IOMMU_CAP_CACHE_COHERENCY)) + return -EINVAL; + return __vfio_register_dev(device, vfio_group_find_or_alloc(device->dev)); } -- 2.35.1