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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: eliminate a potential memory corruption on Hi16xx soc
Hi Zhen,

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:36:16PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
> ITS translation register map:
> 0x0000-0x003C Reserved
> 0x0040 GITS_TRANSLATER
> 0x0044-0xFFFC Reserved
>
> The standard GITS_TRANSLATER register in ITS is only 4 bytes, but Hisilicon
> expands the next 4 bytes to carry some IMPDEF information. That means, 8 bytes
> data will be written to MSIAddress each time.
>
> MSIAddr: |----4bytes----|----4bytes----|
> | MSIData | IMPDEF |
>
> There is no problem for ITS, because the next 4 bytes space is reserved in ITS.
> But it will overwrite the 4 bytes memory following "sync_count". It's very
> luckly that the previous and the next neighbour of "sync_count" are both aligned
> by 8 bytes, so no problem is met now.

My understanding is that MSI's are 32bit memory writes and as such the SMMU
performs a 32bit write in response to the MSI. If so then what is different
with the Hi16xx that causes a problem? Have you been able to able to adjust
the layout of the arm_smmu_device struct to demonstrate this?

Thanks,

Andrew Murray

>
> It's good to explicitly add a workaround:
> 1. Add gcc __attribute__((aligned(8))) to make sure that "sync_count" is always
> aligned by 8 bytes.
> 2. Add a "u64" union member to make sure the 4 bytes padding is always exist.
>
> There is no functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
> index 5059d09..a07bc0d 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
> @@ -586,7 +586,10 @@ struct arm_smmu_device {
>
> struct arm_smmu_strtab_cfg strtab_cfg;
>
> + union {
> + u64 padding; /* workaround for Hisilicon */
> u32 sync_count;
> + } __attribute__((aligned(8)));
>
> /* IOMMU core code handle */
> struct iommu_device iommu;
> --
> 1.8.3
>
>
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