Re: [PATCH v5 5/9] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Refactor write_ctx_desc

[Michael Shavit]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 9:50 PM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > -     ret = arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc(smmu_domain, mm->pasid, cd);
> > -     if (ret)
> > +     ret = arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc_devices(smmu_domain, mm->pasid, cd);
> > +     if (ret) {
> > +             arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc_devices(smmu_domain, mm->pasid, NULL);
>
> Why is it safe to drop the lock between these two calls?

Hmmm this is a tricky question.
Tracing through the SVA flow, it seems like there's a scenario where
multiple masters (with the same upstream SMMU device) can be attached
to the same primary/non-sva domain, in which case calling
iommu_attach_device_pasid on one device will write the CD entry for
both masters. This is still the case even with this patch series, and
changing this behavior will be the subject of a separate follow-up.
This is weird, especially since the second master need not even have
the sva_enabled bit set. This also means that the list of attached
masters can indeed change between these two calls if that second
master (not the one used on the iommu_attach_device_pasid call leading
to this code) is detached/attached at the same time. It's hard for me
to reason about whether this is safe or not, since this is already
weird behavior...


>
> Since you're dropping this and relying on the lock being taken higher up
> callstack, can we add a lockdep assertion that we do actually hold the
> devices_lock, please?

Will do!