Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/arm-smmu: Break insecure users by disabling bypass by default

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On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:27 PM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2019-10-04 9:37 pm, Tim Harvey wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:34 AM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 04/10/2019 18:13, Tim Harvey wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>>>> No difference... still need 'arm-smmu.disable_bypass=n' to boot. Are
> >>>>> all four iommu-map props above supposed to be the same? Seems to me
> >>>>> they all point to the same thing which looks wrong.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hmm... :/
> >>>>
> >>>> Those mappings just set Stream ID == PCI RID (strictly each one should
> >>>> only need to cover the bus range assigned to that bridge, but it's not
> >>>> crucial) which is the same thing the driver assumes for the mmu-masters
> >>>> property, so either that's wrong and never could have worked anyway -
> >>>> have you tried VFIO on this platform? - or there are other devices also
> >>>> mastering through the SMMU that aren't described at all. Are you able to
> >>>> capture a boot log? The SMMU faults do encode information about the
> >>>> offending ID, and you can typically correlate their appearance
> >>>> reasonably well with endpoint drivers probing.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Robin,
> >>>
> >>> VFIO is enabled in the kernel but I don't know anything about how to
> >>> test/use it:
> >>> $ grep VFIO .config
> >>> CONFIG_KVM_VFIO=y
> >>> CONFIG_VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1=y
> >>> CONFIG_VFIO_VIRQFD=y
> >>> CONFIG_VFIO=y
> >>> # CONFIG_VFIO_NOIOMMU is not set
> >>> CONFIG_VFIO_PCI=y
> >>> CONFIG_VFIO_PCI_MMAP=y
> >>> CONFIG_VFIO_PCI_INTX=y
> >>> # CONFIG_VFIO_PLATFORM is not set
> >>> # CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV is not set
> >>
> >> No worries - since it's a networking-focused SoC I figured there was a
> >> chance you might be using DPDK or similar userspace drivers with the NIC
> >> VFs, but I was just casting around for a quick and easy baseline of
> >> whether the SMMU works at all (another way would be using Qemu to run a
> >> VM with one or more PCI devices assigned).
> >>
> >>> I do have a boot console yet I'm not seeing any smmu faults at all.
> >>> Perhaps I've mis-diagnosed the issue completely. To be clear when I
> >>> boot with arm-smmu.disable_bypass=y the serial console appears to not
> >>> accept input in userspace and with arm-smmu.disable_bypass=n I'm fine.
> >>> I'm using a buildroot initramfs rootfs for simplicity. The system
> >>> isn't hung as I originally expected as the LED heartbeat trigger
> >>> continues blinking... I just can't get console to accept input.
> >>
> >> Curiouser and curiouser... I'm inclined to suspect that the interrupt
> >> configuration might also be messed up, such that the SMMU is blocking
> >> traffic and jammed up due to pending faults, but you're not getting the
> >> IRQ delivered to find out. Does this patch help reveal anything?
> >>
> >> http://linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-rm.git;a=commitdiff;h=29ac3648b580920692c9b417b2fc606995826517
> >>
> >> (untested, but it's a direct port of the one I've used for SMMUv3 to
> >> diagnose something similar)
> >
> > This shows:
>
> Yay (ish)!
>
> [ and the tangential challenge would be to find out what the real global
> fault interrupt is, 'cause apparently it's not SPI 68... ]
>
> > arm-smmu 830000000000.smmu0: Unexpected global fault, this could be serious
> > arm-smmu 830000000000.smmu0:     GFSR 0x80000002, GFSYNR0 0x00000002,
> > GFSYNR1 0x00000140, GFSYNR2 0x00000000
>
> If that stream ID were a PCI RID, it would be 01:08.0
>
> > arm-smmu 830000000000.smmu0: Unexpected global fault, this could be serious
> > arm-smmu 830000000000.smmu0:     GFSR 0x80000002, GFSYNR0 0x00000002,
> > GFSYNR1 0x00000010, GFSYNR2 0x00000000
>
> And this guy would be 00:02.0
>
> So it seems that either the stream ID mapping is non-trivial (and
> "mmu-masters" couldn't have worked), or there are secret magic endpoints
> writing to memory during boot. Either way it probably needs some input
> from Cavium/Marvell to get straight. In the meantime, unless just
> disabling and ignoring the SMMU altogether is a viable option, I guess
> we have to resign to this being one of those "non-good" reasons for
> needing global bypass :(
>
> Robin.
>
> (note to self: it would probably be useful if we dump GFAR in these logs
> too. These are all writes, so it's possible they could be MSI attempts
> targeting the ITS rather than DMA as such)

Robin,

Thanks for the help here!

I opened up a support issue with Marvell but have not gotten anything
from them in the 2 weeks since (horrible support since Marvell
acquired them) thus I'm adding in some Marvell/Cavium folk active in
other areas of kernel development as a cry for help as OcteonTX iommu
is completely broken in mainline and I think this is the cause of
mainline stability issues I've seen since the 4.14 kernel.

Marvell/Cavium devs... can you please chime in here regarding iommu
configuration issues for CN80xx/CN81XX OcteonTX?

Thanks,

Tim


Tim



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