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This fix is applicable for LTS kernel, 6.1.y. In latest kernels, this race issue is fixed by the patch series [1] and [2]. The right thing to do here would have been propagating these changes from latest kernel to the stable branch, 6.1.y. However, these changes seems too intrusive to be picked for stable branches. Hence, the fix proposed can be taken as an alternative instead of backporting the patch series. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0-v8-81230027b2fa+9d-iommu_all_defdom_jgg@nvidia.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0-v5-1b99ae392328+44574-iommu_err_unwind_jgg@nvidia.com/ Issue: A race condition is observed when arm_smmu_device_probe and modprobe of client devices happens in parallel. This results in the allocation of a new default domain for the iommu group even though it was previously allocated and the respective iova domain(iovad) was initialized. However, for this newly allocated default domain, iovad will not be initialized. As a result, for devices requesting dma allocations, this uninitialized iovad will be used, thereby causing NULL pointer dereference issue. Flow: - During arm_smmu_device_probe, bus_iommu_probe() will be called as part of iommu_device_register(). This results in the device probe, __iommu_probe_device(). - When the modprobe of the client device happens in parallel, it sets up the DMA configuration for the device using of_dma_configure_id(), which inturn calls iommu_probe_device(). Later, default domain is allocated and attached using iommu_alloc_default_domain() and __iommu_attach_device() respectively. It then ends up initializing a mapping domain(IOVA domain) and rcaches for the device via arch_setup_dma_ops()->iommu_setup_dma_ops(). - Now, in the bus_iommu_probe() path, it again tries to allocate a default domain via probe_alloc_default_domain(). This results in allocating a new default domain(along with IOVA domain) via __iommu_domain_alloc(). However, this newly allocated IOVA domain will not be initialized. - Now, when the same client device tries dma allocations via iommu_dma_alloc(), it ends up accessing the rcaches of the newly allocated IOVA domain, which is not initialized. This results into NULL pointer dereferencing. Fix this issue by adding a check in probe_alloc_default_domain() to see if the iommu_group already has a default domain allocated and initialized. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # see patch description, fix applicable only for 6.1.y Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com> Co-developed-by: Nikhil V <quic_nprakash@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Nikhil V <quic_nprakash@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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