[Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/1] drm/xen-zcopy: Add Xen zero-copy helper DRM driver

Fri Apr 27 06:54:07 UTC 2018

On 04/25/2018 08:16 PM, Dongwon Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 08:34:55AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:07:07AM +0300, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
>>> On 04/24/2018 11:35 PM, Dongwon Kim wrote:
>>>> Had a meeting with Daniel and talked about bringing out generic
>>>> part of hyper-dmabuf to the userspace, which means we most likely
>>>> reuse IOCTLs defined in xen-zcopy for our use-case if we follow
>>>> his suggestion.
>>> I will still have kernel side API, so backends/frontends implemented
>>> in the kernel can access that functionality as well.
>>>> So assuming we use these IOCTLs as they are,
>>>> Several things I would like you to double-check..
>>>>
>>>> 1. returning gref as is to the user space is still unsafe because
>>>> it is a constant, easy to guess and any process that hijacks it can easily
>>>> exploit the buffer. So I am wondering if it's possible to keep dmabuf-to
>>>> -gref or gref-to-dmabuf in kernel space and add other layers on top
>>>> of those in actual IOCTLs to add some safety.. We introduced flink like
>>>> hyper_dmabuf_id including random number but many says even that is still
>>>> not safe.
>>> Yes, it is generally unsafe. But even if we have implemented
>>> the approach you have in hyper-dmabuf or similar, what stops
>>> malicious software from doing the same with the existing gntdev UAPI?
>>> No need to brute force new UAPI if there is a simpler one.
>>> That being said, I'll put security aside at the first stage,
>>> but of course we can start investigating ways to improve
>>> (I assume you already have use-cases where security issues must
>>> be considered, so, probably you can tell more on what was investigated
>>> so far).
> Yeah, although we think we lowered the chance of guessing the right id
> by adding random number to it, the security hole is still there as far
> as we use a constant id across VMs. We understood this from the beginning
> but couldn't find a better way. So what we proposed is to make sure our
> customer understand this and prepare very secure way to handle this id
> in the userspace (mattrope however recently proposed a "hyper-pipe" which
> FD-type id can be converted and exchanged safely through. So we are looking
> into this now.)
>
> And another approach we have proposed is to use event-polling, that lets
> the privileged userapp in importing guest to know about a new exported
> DMABUF so that it can retrieve it from the queue then redistribute to
> other applications. This method is not very flexible however, is one way
> to hide ID from userspace completely.
>
> Anyway, yes, we can continue to investigate the possible way to make it
> more secure.
Great, if you come up with something then you'll be able
to plumb this in
>> Maybe a bit more context here:
>>
>> So in graphics we have this old flink approach for buffer sharing with
>> processes, and it's unsafe because way too easy to guess the buffer
>> handles. And anyone with access to the graphics driver can then import
>> that buffer object. We switched to file descriptor passing to make sure
>> only the intended recipient can import a buffer.
>>
>> So at the vm->vm level it sounds like grefs are safe, because they're only
>> for a specific other guest (or sets of guests, not sure about). That means
>> security is only within the OS. For that you need to make sure that
>> unpriviledge userspace simply can't ever access a gref. If that doesn't
>> work out, then I guess we should improve the xen gref stuff to have a more
>> secure cookie.
>>
>>>> 2. maybe we could take hypervisor-independent process (e.g. SGT<->page)
>>>> out of xen-zcopy and put those in a new helper library.
>>> I believe this can be done, but at the first stage I would go without
>>> that helper library, so it is clearly seen what can be moved to it later
>>> (I know that you want to run ACRN as well, but can I run it on ARM? ;)
>> There's already helpers for walking sgtables and adding pages/enumerating
>> pages. I don't think we need more.
> ok, where would that helpers be located? If we consider we will use these
> with other hypervisor drivers, maybe it's better to place those in some
> common area?
I am not quite sure what and if those helpers be really needed.
Let's try to prototype the thing and then see what can be
moved to a helper library and where it should live
>>>> 3. please consider the case where original DMA-BUF's first offset
>>>> and last length are not 0 and PAGE_SIZE respectively. I assume current
>>>> xen-zcopy only supports page-aligned buffer with PAGE_SIZE x n big.
>>> Hm, what is the use-case for that?
> Just in general use-case.. I was just considering the case (might be corner
> case..) where sg->offset != 0 or sg->length != PAGE_SIZE. Hyper dmabuf sends
> this information (first offset and last length) together with references for
> pages. So I was wondering if we should so similar thing in zcopy since your
> goal is now to cover general dma-buf use-cases (however, danvet mentioned
> hard constaint of dma-buf below.. so if this can't happen according to the
> spec, then we can ignore it..)
I won't be considering this use-case during prototyping as
it seems it doesn't have a *real* ground underneath
>> dma-buf is always page-aligned. That's a hard constraint of the linux
>> dma-buf interface spec.
>> -Daniel
> Hmm.. I am little bit confused..
> So does it mean dmabuf->size is always n*PAGE_SIZE? What is the sgt behind
> dmabuf has an offset other than 0 for the first sgl or the length of the
> last sgl is not PAGE_SIZE? You are saying this case is not acceptable for
> dmabuf?
IMO, yes, see above
>>>> thanks,
>>>> DW
>>> Thank you,
>>> Oleksandr
>>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 02:59:39PM +0300, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
>>>>> On 04/24/2018 02:54 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 03:10:35PM +0300, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
>>>>>>> On 04/23/2018 02:52 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 02:25:20PM +0300, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>        the gntdev.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I think this is generic enough that it could be implemented by a
>>>>>>>>>>> device not tied to Xen. AFAICT the hyper_dma guys also wanted
>>>>>>>>>>> something similar to this.
>>>>>>>>>> You can't just wrap random userspace memory into a dma-buf. We've just had
>>>>>>>>>> this discussion with kvm/qemu folks, who proposed just that, and after a
>>>>>>>>>> bit of discussion they'll now try to have a driver which just wraps a
>>>>>>>>>> memfd into a dma-buf.
>>>>>>>>> So, we have to decide either we introduce a new driver
>>>>>>>>> (say, under drivers/xen/xen-dma-buf) or extend the existing
>>>>>>>>> gntdev/balloon to support dma-buf use-cases.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Can anybody from Xen community express their preference here?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Oleksandr talked to me on IRC about this, he said a few IOCTLs need to
>>>>>>>> be added to either existing drivers or a new driver.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I went through this thread twice and skimmed through the relevant
>>>>>>>> documents, but I couldn't see any obvious pros and cons for either
>>>>>>>> approach. So I don't really have an opinion on this.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But, assuming if implemented in existing drivers, those IOCTLs need to
>>>>>>>> be added to different drivers, which means userspace program needs to
>>>>>>>> write more code and get more handles, it would be slightly better to
>>>>>>>> implement a new driver from that perspective.
>>>>>>> If gntdev/balloon extension is still considered:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All the IOCTLs will be in gntdev driver (in current xen-zcopy terminology):
>>>>> I was lazy to change dumb to dma-buf, so put this notice ;)
>>>>>>>    - DRM_ICOTL_XEN_ZCOPY_DUMB_FROM_REFS
>>>>>>>    - DRM_IOCTL_XEN_ZCOPY_DUMB_TO_REFS
>>>>>>>    - DRM_IOCTL_XEN_ZCOPY_DUMB_WAIT_FREE
>>>>>> s/DUMB/DMA_BUF/ please. This is generic dma-buf, it has nothing to do with
>>>>>> the dumb scanout buffer support in the drm/gfx subsystem. This here can be
>>>>>> used for any zcopy sharing among guests (as long as your endpoints
>>>>>> understands dma-buf, which most relevant drivers do).
>>>>> Of course, please see above
>>>>>> -Daniel
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Balloon driver extension, which is needed for contiguous/DMA
>>>>>>> buffers, will be to provide new *kernel API*, no UAPI is needed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Wei.
>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>> Oleksandr
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>> Daniel Vetter
>> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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