[PATCH v7 00/15] Restricted DMA
Claire Chang
tientzu at chromium.org
Tue May 18 06:42:00 UTC 2021
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-wi-fi_4.html
[1b] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_11.html
[2] https://blade.tencent.com/en/advisories/qualpwn/
[3] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vulnerabilities-found-in-highly-popular-firmware-for-wifi-chips/
[4] https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/blob/master/plat/mediatek/mt8183/drivers/emi_mpu/emi_mpu.c#L132
v7:
Fix debugfs, PageHighMem and comment style in rmem_swiotlb_device_init
v6:
Address the comments in v5
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1423201/
v5:
Rebase on latest linux-next
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1416899/
v4:
- Fix spinlock bad magic
- Use rmem->name for debugfs entry
- Address the comments in v3
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1378113/
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 (15):
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 | 27 ++
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 | 63 +++--
kernel/dma/direct.h | 9 +-
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 242 +++++++++++++-----
15 files changed, 356 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)
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