This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dmaengine: idxd: add a new security check to deal with a hardware erratum
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
dmaengine-idxd-add-a-new-security-check-to-deal-with-a-hardware-erratum.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From e11452eb071b2a8e6ba52892b2e270bbdaa6640d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:43:22 +0000
Subject: dmaengine: idxd: add a new security check to deal with a hardware erratum
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit e11452eb071b2a8e6ba52892b2e270bbdaa6640d upstream.
On Sapphire Rapids and related platforms, the DSA and IAA devices have an
erratum that causes direct access (for example, by using the ENQCMD or
MOVDIR64 instructions) from untrusted applications to be a security problem.
To solve this, add a flag to the PCI device enumeration and device structures
to indicate the presence/absence of this security exposure. In the mmap()
method of the device, this flag is then used to enforce that the user
has the CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability.
In a future patch, a write() based method will be added that allows untrusted
applications submit work to the accelerator, where the kernel can do
sanity checking on the user input to ensure secure operation of the accelerator.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/idxd/cdev.c | 12 ++++++++++++
drivers/dma/idxd/idxd.h | 3 +++
drivers/dma/idxd/init.c | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/dma/idxd/cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/cdev.c
@@ -198,6 +198,18 @@ static int idxd_cdev_mmap(struct file *f
int rc;
dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "%s called\n", __func__);
+
+ /*
+ * Due to an erratum in some of the devices supported by the driver,
+ * direct user submission to the device can be unsafe.
+ * (See the INTEL-SA-01084 security advisory)
+ *
+ * For the devices that exhibit this behavior, require that the user
+ * has CAP_SYS_RAWIO capabilities.
+ */
+ if (!idxd->user_submission_safe && !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
+ return -EPERM;
+
rc = check_vma(wq, vma, __func__);
if (rc < 0)
return rc;
--- a/drivers/dma/idxd/idxd.h
+++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/idxd.h
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ struct idxd_driver_data {
struct device_type *dev_type;
int compl_size;
int align;
+ bool user_submission_safe;
};
struct idxd_device {
@@ -316,6 +317,8 @@ struct idxd_device {
struct idxd_pmu *idxd_pmu;
unsigned long *opcap_bmap;
+
+ bool user_submission_safe;
};
/* IDXD software descriptor */
--- a/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ static struct idxd_driver_data idxd_driv
.compl_size = sizeof(struct dsa_completion_record),
.align = 32,
.dev_type = &dsa_device_type,
+ .user_submission_safe = false, /* See INTEL-SA-01084 security advisory */
},
[IDXD_TYPE_IAX] = {
.name_prefix = "iax",
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ static struct idxd_driver_data idxd_driv
.compl_size = sizeof(struct iax_completion_record),
.align = 64,
.dev_type = &iax_device_type,
+ .user_submission_safe = false, /* See INTEL-SA-01084 security advisory */
},
};
@@ -663,6 +665,8 @@ static int idxd_pci_probe(struct pci_dev
dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Intel(R) Accelerator Device (v%x)\n",
idxd->hw.version);
+ idxd->user_submission_safe = data->user_submission_safe;
+
return 0;
err_dev_register:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/vfio-add-the-spr_dsa-and-spr_iax-devices-to-the-denylist.patch
queue-6.1/dmaengine-idxd-add-a-write-method-for-applications-to-submit-work.patch
queue-6.1/dmaengine-idxd-add-a-new-security-check-to-deal-with-a-hardware-erratum.patch
