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On Sapphire Rapids and related platforms, the DSA and IAA devices have an
erratum that causes direct access (for example, by using the ENQCMD or
MOVDIR64 instructions) from untrusted applications to be a security problem.

To solve this, add a flag to the PCI device enumeration and device structures
to indicate the presence/absence of this security exposure. In the mmap()
method of the device, this flag is then used to enforce that the user
has the CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability.

In a future patch, a write() based method will be added that allows untrusted
applications submit work to the accelerator, where the kernel can do
sanity checking on the user input to ensure secure operation of the accelerator.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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fenrus75 committed May 13, 2024
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12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions drivers/dma/idxd/cdev.c
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Expand Up @@ -400,6 +400,18 @@ static int idxd_cdev_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
int rc;

dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "%s called\n", __func__);

/*
* Due to an erratum in some of the devices supported by the driver,
* direct user submission to the device can be unsafe.
* (See the INTEL-SA-01084 security advisory)
*
* For the devices that exhibit this behavior, require that the user
* has CAP_SYS_RAWIO capabilities.
*/
if (!idxd->user_submission_safe && !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
return -EPERM;

rc = check_vma(wq, vma, __func__);
if (rc < 0)
return rc;
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions drivers/dma/idxd/idxd.h
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Expand Up @@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ struct idxd_driver_data {
int evl_cr_off;
int cr_status_off;
int cr_result_off;
bool user_submission_safe;
load_device_defaults_fn_t load_device_defaults;
};

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struct dentry *dbgfs_dir;
struct dentry *dbgfs_evl_file;

bool user_submission_safe;
};

static inline unsigned int evl_ent_size(struct idxd_device *idxd)
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
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Expand Up @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static struct idxd_driver_data idxd_driver_data[] = {
.align = 32,
.dev_type = &dsa_device_type,
.evl_cr_off = offsetof(struct dsa_evl_entry, cr),
.user_submission_safe = false, /* See INTEL-SA-01084 security advisory */
.cr_status_off = offsetof(struct dsa_completion_record, status),
.cr_result_off = offsetof(struct dsa_completion_record, result),
},
Expand All @@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ static struct idxd_driver_data idxd_driver_data[] = {
.align = 64,
.dev_type = &iax_device_type,
.evl_cr_off = offsetof(struct iax_evl_entry, cr),
.user_submission_safe = false, /* See INTEL-SA-01084 security advisory */
.cr_status_off = offsetof(struct iax_completion_record, status),
.cr_result_off = offsetof(struct iax_completion_record, error_code),
.load_device_defaults = idxd_load_iaa_device_defaults,
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dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Intel(R) Accelerator Device (v%x)\n",
idxd->hw.version);

idxd->user_submission_safe = data->user_submission_safe;

return 0;

err_dev_register:
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