[PATCH v10 0/3] Secure Memory Allocation Framework
Rob Clark
robdclark at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 16:54:48 UTC 2016
so there is discussion about a "central userspace allocator" (ie. more
like a common userspace API that could be implemented on top of
various devices/APIs) to decide in a generic way which device could
allocate.
https://github.com/cubanismo/allocator
and I wrote up some rough thoughts/proposal about how the usage might
look.. just rough, so don't try to compile it or anything, and not
consensus yet so it will probably change/evolve..
https://github.com/robclark/allocator/blob/master/USAGE.md
I think ion could be just another device to share buffers with, which
happens to not impose any specific constraints. How "liballoc-ion.so"
backend figures out how to map constraints/usage to a heap is a bit
hand-wavey at the moment.
BR,
-R
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Benjamin Gaignard
<benjamin.gaignard at linaro.org> wrote:
> because with ion it is up to userland to decide which heap to use
> and until now userland doesn't have any way to get device constraints...
>
> I will prefer let a central allocator (in kernel) decide from the
> attached devices
> which allocator is the best. It is what I have implemented in smaf.
>
> Benjamin
>
>
> 2016-10-05 15:19 GMT+02:00 Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>:
>> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 01:47:21PM +0200, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
>>> version 10 changes:
>>> - rebased on kernel 4.8 tag
>>> - minor typo fix
>>>
>>> version 9 changes:
>>> - rebased on 4.8-rc5
>>> - struct dma_attrs doesn't exist anymore so update CMA allocator
>>> to compile with new dma_*_attr functions
>>> - add example SMAF use case in cover letter
>>>
>>> version 8 changes:
>>> - rework of the structures used within ioctl
>>> by adding a version field and padding to be futur proof
>>> - rename fake secure moduel to test secure module
>>> - fix the various remarks done on the previous patcheset
>>>
>>> version 7 changes:
>>> - rebased on kernel 4.6-rc7
>>> - simplify secure module API
>>> - add vma ops to be able to detect mmap/munmap calls
>>> - add ioctl to get number and allocator names
>>> - update libsmaf with adding tests
>>> https://git.linaro.org/people/benjamin.gaignard/libsmaf.git
>>> - add debug log in fake secure module
>>>
>>> version 6 changes:
>>> - rebased on kernel 4.5-rc4
>>> - fix mmapping bug while requested allocation size isn't a a multiple of
>>> PAGE_SIZE (add a test for this in libsmaf)
>>>
>>> version 5 changes:
>>> - rebased on kernel 4.3-rc6
>>> - rework locking schema and make handle status use an atomic_t
>>> - add a fake secure module to allow performing tests without trusted
>>> environment
>>>
>>> version 4 changes:
>>> - rebased on kernel 4.3-rc3
>>> - fix missing EXPORT_SYMBOL for smaf_create_handle()
>>>
>>> version 3 changes:
>>> - Remove ioctl for allocator selection instead provide the name of
>>> the targeted allocator with allocation request.
>>> Selecting allocator from userland isn't the prefered way of working
>>> but is needed when the first user of the buffer is a software component.
>>> - Fix issues in case of error while creating smaf handle.
>>> - Fix module license.
>>> - Update libsmaf and tests to care of the SMAF API evolution
>>> https://git.linaro.org/people/benjamin.gaignard/libsmaf.git
>>>
>>> version 2 changes:
>>> - Add one ioctl to allow allocator selection from userspace.
>>> This is required for the uses case where the first user of
>>> the buffer is a software IP which can't perform dma_buf attachement.
>>> - Add name and ranking to allocator structure to be able to sort them.
>>> - Create a tiny library to test SMAF:
>>> https://git.linaro.org/people/benjamin.gaignard/libsmaf.git
>>> - Fix one issue when try to secure buffer without secure module registered
>>>
>>> SMAF aim to solve two problems: allocating memory that fit with hardware IPs
>>> constraints and secure those data from bus point of view.
>>>
>>> One example of SMAF usage is camera preview: on SoC you may use either an USB
>>> webcam or the built-in camera interface and the frames could be send directly
>>> to the dipslay Ip or handle by GPU.
>>> Most of USB interfaces and GPU have mmu but almost all built-in camera
>>> interace and display Ips don't have mmu so when selecting how allocate
>>> buffer you need to be aware of each devices constraints (contiguous memroy,
>>> stride, boundary, alignment ...).
>>> ION has solve this problem by let userland decide which allocator (heap) to use
>>> but this require to adapt userland for each platform and sometime for each
>>> use case.
>>>
>>> To be sure to select the best allocation method for devices SMAF implement
>>> deferred allocation mechanism: memory allocation is only done when the first
>>> device effectively required it.
>>> Allocator modules have to implement a match() to let SMAF know if they are
>>> compatibles with devices needs.
>>> This patch set provide an example of allocator module which use
>>> dma_{alloc/free/mmap}_attrs() and check if at least one device have
>>> coherent_dma_mask set to DMA_BIT_MASK(32) in match function.
>>>
>>> In the same camera preview use case, SMAF allow to protect the data from being
>>> read by unauthorized IPs (i.e. a malware to dump camera stream).
>>> Until now I have only see access rights protection at process/thread level
>>> (PKeys/MPK) or on file (SELinux) but nothing allow to drive data bus firewalls.
>>> SMAF propose an interface to control and implement those firewalls.
>>> Like IOMMU, firewalls IPs can help to protect memory from malicious/faulty devices
>>> that are attempting DMA attacks.
>>>
>>> Secure modules are responsibles of granting and revoking devices access rights
>>> on the memory. Secure module is also called to check if CPU map memory into
>>> kernel and user address spaces.
>>> An example of secure module implementation can be found here:
>>> http://git.linaro.org/people/benjamin.gaignard/optee-sdp.git
>>> This code isn't yet part of the patch set because it depends on generic TEE
>>> which is still under discussion (https://lwn.net/Articles/644646/)
>>>
>>> For allocation part of SMAF code I get inspirated by Sumit Semwal work about
>>> constraint aware allocator.
>>
>> semi-random review comment, and a bit late: Why not implement smaf as a
>> new heap in ion? I think consensus is pretty much that we'll be stuck with
>> ion forever, and I think it's better to have 1 central buffer allocater
>> than lots of them ...
>> -Daniel
>>
>>>
>>> Benjamin Gaignard (3):
>>> create SMAF module
>>> SMAF: add CMA allocator
>>> SMAF: add test secure module
>>>
>>> drivers/Kconfig | 2 +
>>> drivers/Makefile | 1 +
>>> drivers/smaf/Kconfig | 17 +
>>> drivers/smaf/Makefile | 3 +
>>> drivers/smaf/smaf-cma.c | 186 ++++++++++
>>> drivers/smaf/smaf-core.c | 818 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> drivers/smaf/smaf-testsecure.c | 90 +++++
>>> include/linux/smaf-allocator.h | 45 +++
>>> include/linux/smaf-secure.h | 65 ++++
>>> include/uapi/linux/smaf.h | 85 +++++
>>> 10 files changed, 1312 insertions(+)
>>> create mode 100644 drivers/smaf/Kconfig
>>> create mode 100644 drivers/smaf/Makefile
>>> create mode 100644 drivers/smaf/smaf-cma.c
>>> create mode 100644 drivers/smaf/smaf-core.c
>>> create mode 100644 drivers/smaf/smaf-testsecure.c
>>> create mode 100644 include/linux/smaf-allocator.h
>>> create mode 100644 include/linux/smaf-secure.h
>>> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/smaf.h
>>>
>>> --
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>> --
>> Daniel Vetter
>> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
>> http://blog.ffwll.ch
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