Re: [PATCH] dma-direct: fix DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING

[Walter Wu]

On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 15:17 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 13:21, Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Ard,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 09:34 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 04:17, Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING is to avoid creating a kernel
> > > > mapping
> > > > for the allocated buffer, but current implementation is that
> > > > PTE of allocated buffer in kernel page table is valid. So we
> > > > should set invalid for PTE of allocate buffer so that there are
> > > > no kernel mapping for the allocated buffer.
> > > > 
> > > > In some cases, we don't hope the allocated buffer to be read
> > > > by cpu or speculative execution, so we use
> > > > DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING
> > > > to get no kernel mapping in order to achieve this goal.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  kernel/dma/direct.c | 8 ++++++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/kernel/dma/direct.c b/kernel/dma/direct.c
> > > > index 4c6c5e0635e3..aa10b4c5d762 100644
> > > > --- a/kernel/dma/direct.c
> > > > +++ b/kernel/dma/direct.c
> > > > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> > > >  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> > > >  #include <linux/set_memory.h>
> > > >  #include <linux/slab.h>
> > > > +#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
> > > >  #include "direct.h"
> > > > 
> > > >  /*
> > > > @@ -169,6 +170,9 @@ void *dma_direct_alloc(struct device *dev,
> > > > size_t size,
> > > >                 if (!PageHighMem(page))
> > > >                         arch_dma_prep_coherent(page, size);
> > > >                 *dma_handle = phys_to_dma_direct(dev,
> > > > page_to_phys(page));
> > > > +               /* remove kernel mapping for pages */
> > > > +               set_memory_valid((unsigned
> > > > long)phys_to_virt(dma_to_phys(dev, *dma_handle)),
> > > > +                               size >> PAGE_SHIFT, 0);
> > > 
> > > This only works if the memory is mapped at page granularity in
> > > the
> > > linear region, and you cannot rely on that. Many architectures
> > > prefer
> > > block mappings for the linear region, and arm64 will only use
> > > page
> > > mappings if rodata=full is set (which is set by default but can
> > > be
> > > overridden on the kernel command line)
> > > 
> > 
> > We mainly want to solve arm64 arch.
> 
> Solve what?

Our platform is arch64. We need a dynamic allocated buffer from CMA is
not to read by CPU peculative execution, so we need to remove its
kernel mapping.

> > RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED should
> > be the arm64 config. If we use CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
> > to
> > check whether it call set_memory_valid(). It should avoid other
> > architectures. Do you think this method is work?
> > 
> 
> No. Try it with rodata=off (or rodata=on for that matter) and see
> what happens.
> 

I try with rodata=[off/on] on qemu, it looks like boot pass. see below.

[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 rw rootfstype=ext4
rodata=off console=ttyAMA0 rdinit=qemu/ramdisk.img earlyprintk=serial


I also try with rodata=off on our platform and do stress test, it looks
like pass.


Thanks.
Walter

> > Thanks for your explaination and suggestion.
> > 
> 
> YW
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > >                 /* return the page pointer as the opaque cookie
> > > > */
> > > >                 return page;
> > > >         }
> > > > @@ -278,6 +282,10 @@ void dma_direct_free(struct device *dev,
> > > > size_t size,
> > > > 
> > > >         if ((attrs & DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING) &&
> > > >             !force_dma_unencrypted(dev) &&
> > > > !is_swiotlb_for_alloc(dev)) {
> > > > +               size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
> > > > +               /* create kernel mapping for pages */
> > > > +               set_memory_valid((unsigned
> > > > long)phys_to_virt(dma_to_phys(dev, dma_addr)),
> > > > +                               size >> PAGE_SHIFT, 1);
> > > >                 /* cpu_addr is a struct page cookie, not a
> > > > kernel
> > > > address */
> > > >                 dma_free_contiguous(dev, cpu_addr, size);
> > > >                 return;
> > > > --
> > > > 2.18.0
> > > > 
> > > > 
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