swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE"
authorHalil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Sat, 5 Mar 2022 17:07:14 +0000 (18:07 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:23:43 +0000 (14:23 +0100)
commit2c1f97af38be151527380796d31d3c9adb054bf9
tree089a42839353c5b65242d3a003903b25f40c4b60
parent0349c79c550813aca20aa41bc6865431f11e0ba1
swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE"

commit aa6f8dcbab473f3a3c7454b74caa46d36cdc5d13 upstream.

Unfortunately, we ended up merging an old version of the patch "fix info
leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE" instead of merging the latest one. Christoph
(the swiotlb maintainer), he asked me to create an incremental fix
(after I have pointed this out the mix up, and asked him for guidance).
So here we go.

The main differences between what we got and what was agreed are:
* swiotlb_sync_single_for_device is also required to do an extra bounce
* We decided not to introduce DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE until we have exploiters
* The implantation of DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE is flawed: DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE
  must take precedence over DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC

Thus this patch removes DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE, and makes
swiotlb_sync_single_for_device() bounce unconditionally (that is, also
when dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE) in order do avoid synchronising back stale
data from the swiotlb buffer.

Let me note, that if the size used with dma_sync_* API is less than the
size used with dma_[un]map_*, under certain circumstances we may still
end up with swiotlb not being transparent. In that sense, this is no
perfect fix either.

To get this bullet proof, we would have to bounce the entire
mapping/bounce buffer. For that we would have to figure out the starting
address, and the size of the mapping in
swiotlb_sync_single_for_device(). While this does seem possible, there
seems to be no firm consensus on how things are supposed to work.

Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: ddbd89deb7d3 ("swiotlb: fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst
include/linux/dma-mapping.h
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c