Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] s390: vfio-ap: dynamic configuration support

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On 10/8/19 6:48 AM, Halil Pasic wrote:
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:26:48 -0400
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The current design for AP pass-through does not support making dynamic
changes to the AP matrix of a running guest resulting in three deficiencies
this patch series is intended to mitigate:

1. Adapters, domains and control domains can not be added to or removed
    from a running guest. In order to modify a guest's AP configuration,
    the guest must be terminated; only then can AP resources be assigned
    to or unassigned from the guest's matrix mdev. The new AP configuration
    becomes available to the guest when it is subsequently restarted.

2. The AP bus's /sys/bus/ap/apmask and /sys/bus/ap/aqmask interfaces can
    be modified by a root user without any restrictions. A change to either
    mask can result in AP queue devices being unbound from the vfio_ap
    device driver and bound to a zcrypt device driver even if a guest is
    using the queues, thus giving the host access to the guest's private
    crypto data and vice versa.

3. The APQNs derived from the Cartesian product of the APIDs of the
    adapters and APQIs of the domains assigned to a matrix mdev must
    reference an AP queue device bound to the vfio_ap device driver.

This patch series introduces the following changes to the current design
to alleviate the shortcomings described above as well as to implement more
of the AP architecture:

1. A root user will be prevented from making changes to the AP bus's
    /sys/bus/ap/apmask or /sys/bus/ap/aqmask if the ownership of an APQN
    changes from the vfio_ap device driver to a zcrypt driver when the APQN
    is assigned to a matrix mdev.

2. The sysfs bind/unbind interfaces will be disabled for the vfio_ap
    device driver.


Doesn't this have the potential of breaking some userspace stuff that
might be out there?

I have decided to leave these interfaces enabled.


3. Allow AP resources to be assigned to or removed from a matrix mdev
    while a guest is using it and hot plug the resource into or hot unplug
    the resource from the running guest.

This looks like a natural extension of the interface -- i.e. should not
break any userspace.

We agree



4. Allow assignment of an AP adapter or domain to a matrix mdev even if it
    results in assignment of an APQN that does not reference an AP queue
    device bound to the vfio_ap device driver, as long as the APQN is owned
    by the vfio_ap driver. Allowing over-provisioning of AP resources
    better models the architecture which does not preclude assigning AP
    resources that are not yet available in the system. If/when the queue
    becomes available to the host, it will immediately also become available
    to the guest.

Same here -- I don't think this change breaks any userspace.

We agree here also



1. Rationale for changes to AP bus's apmask/aqmask interfaces:
----------------------------------------------------------
Due to the extremely sensitive nature of cryptographic data, it is
imperative that great care be taken to ensure that such data is secured.
Allowing a root user, either inadvertently or maliciously, to configure
these masks such that a queue is shared between the host and a guest is
not only avoidable, it is advisable. It was suggested that this scenario
is better handled in user space with management software, but that does
not preclude a malicious administrator from using the sysfs interfaces
to gain access to a guest's crypto data. It was also suggested that this
scenario could be avoided by taking access to the adapter away from the
guest and zeroing out the queues prior to the vfio_ap driver releasing the
device; however, stealing an adapter in use from a guest as a by-product
of an operation is bad and will likely cause problems for the guest
unnecessarily. It was decided that the most effective solution with the
least number of negative side effects is to prevent the situation at the
source.

2. Rationale for disabling bind/unbind interfaces for vfio_ap driver:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
By disabling the bind/unbind interfaces for the vfio_ap device driver,
the user is forced to use the AP bus's apmask/aqmask interfaces to control
the probing and removing of AP queues. There are two primary reasons for
disabling the bind/unbind interfaces for the vfio_ap device driver:

* The device architecture does not provide a means to prevent unbinding
   a device from a device driver, so an AP queue device can be unbound
   from the vfio_ap driver even when the queue is in use by a guest. By
   disabling the unbind interface, the user is forced to use the AP bus's
   apmask/aqmask interfaces which will prevent this.


Isn't this fixed by your filtering (if implemented correctly)? BTW I believe
it solves the problem regardless whether the unbind was triggered by the
drivers unbind attribute or by a[pq]mask.

IMHO, it would be better if we didn't rely on the filtering because when
an unbind is done, the filtering will remove access to the entire
adapter. My goal was to limit the need for filtering to unbinds
triggered by AP deconfiguration via the SE or SCLP command over which we
have no control. We can control all other scenarios except for when an
adapter goes away for some other reason such as a failure.


* Binding of AP queues is controlled by the AP bus /sys/bus/ap/apmask and
   /sys/bus/ap/aqmask interfaces. If the masks indicate that an APQN is
   owned by zcrypt, trying to bind it to the vfio_ap device driver will
   fail; therefore, the bind interface is somewhat redundant and certainly
   unnecessary.

[..]

Tony Krowiak (10):
   s390: vfio-ap: Refactor vfio_ap driver probe and remove callbacks
   s390: vfio-ap: allow assignment of unavailable AP resources to mdev
     device
   s390: vfio-ap: allow hot plug/unplug of AP resources using mdev device
   s390: vfio-ap: filter CRYCB bits for unavailable queue devices
   s390: vfio-ap: sysfs attribute to display the guest CRYCB
   s390: vfio-ap: update guest CRYCB in vfio_ap probe and remove
     callbacks
   s390: zcrypt: driver callback to indicate resource in use
   s390: vfio-ap: implement in-use callback for vfio_ap driver
   s390: vfio-ap: added versioning to vfio_ap module
   s390: vfio-ap: update documentation

I believe it would be worthwhile to reorder the patches (fixes and
re-factoring first, the features).

Suggestions?


Regards,
Halil


  Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst        | 899 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
  drivers/s390/crypto/ap_bus.c          | 144 +++++-
  drivers/s390/crypto/ap_bus.h          |   4 +
  drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c     |  27 +-
  drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c     | 610 ++++++++++++++---------
  drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_private.h |  12 +-
  6 files changed, 1200 insertions(+), 496 deletions(-)






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