This series implements mitigations for lack of DMA access control on systems without an IOMMU, which could result in the DMA accessing the system memory at unexpected times and/or unexpected addresses, possibly leading to data leakage or corruption.
For example, we plan to use the PCI-e bus for Wi-Fi and that PCI-e bus is not behind an IOMMU. As PCI-e, by design, gives the device full access to system memory, a vulnerability in the Wi-Fi firmware could easily escalate to a full system exploit (remote wifi exploits: [1a], [1b] that shows a full chain of exploits; [2], [3]).
To mitigate the security concerns, we introduce restricted DMA. Restricted DMA utilizes the existing swiotlb to bounce streaming DMA in and out of a specially allocated region and does memory allocation from the same region. The feature on its own provides a basic level of protection against the DMA overwriting buffer contents at unexpected times. However, to protect against general data leakage and system memory corruption, the system needs to provide a way to restrict the DMA to a predefined memory region (this is usually done at firmware level, e.g. MPU in ATF on some ARM platforms [4]).
[1a] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms... [1b] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms... [2] https://blade.tencent.com/en/advisories/qualpwn/ [3] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vulnerabilities-found-in-high... [4] https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/blob/master/plat/mediat...
v5: Rebase on latest linux-next
v4: - Fix spinlock bad magic - Use rmem->name for debugfs entry - Address the comments in v3
v3: Using only one reserved memory region for both streaming DMA and memory allocation. https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1360992/
v2: Building on top of swiotlb. https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1280705/
v1: Using dma_map_ops. https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1271660/
Claire Chang (16): swiotlb: Fix the type of index swiotlb: Refactor swiotlb init functions swiotlb: Refactor swiotlb_create_debugfs swiotlb: Add DMA_RESTRICTED_POOL swiotlb: Add restricted DMA pool initialization swiotlb: Add a new get_io_tlb_mem getter swiotlb: Update is_swiotlb_buffer to add a struct device argument swiotlb: Update is_swiotlb_active to add a struct device argument swiotlb: Bounce data from/to restricted DMA pool if available swiotlb: Move alloc_size to find_slots swiotlb: Refactor swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single dma-direct: Add a new wrapper __dma_direct_free_pages() swiotlb: Add restricted DMA alloc/free support. dma-direct: Allocate memory from restricted DMA pool if available dt-bindings: of: Add restricted DMA pool of: Add plumbing for restricted DMA pool
.../reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt | 24 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_internal.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_ttm.c | 2 +- drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c | 12 +- drivers/of/address.c | 25 ++ drivers/of/device.c | 3 + drivers/of/of_private.h | 5 + drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c | 2 +- drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c | 2 +- include/linux/device.h | 4 + include/linux/swiotlb.h | 41 ++- kernel/dma/Kconfig | 14 + kernel/dma/direct.c | 57 +++-- kernel/dma/direct.h | 9 +- kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 242 +++++++++++++----- 15 files changed, 347 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)