[PATCH rc v1 0/4] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Fix hitless STE update in nesting cases
From: Nicolin Chen <hidden>
Date: 2025-12-06 00:53:42
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Occasional C_BAD_STE errors were observed in nesting setups where a device attached to a nested bypass/identity domain enables PASID. This occurred when the physical STE was updated from S2-only mode to S1+S2 nesting mode, but the update failed to use the hitless routine that it was supposed to use. Instead, it cleared STE.V bit to load the CD table, while the default substream was still actively performing DMA. It was later found that the diff algorithm in arm_smmu_entry_qword_diff() enforced an additional critical word due to misaligned MEV and EATS fields between S2-only and S1+S2 modes. Both fields are either well-managed or non-critical, so move them to the "ignored" list to relax the qword diff algorithm. Additionally, add KUnit test coverage for these nesting STE cases. This is on Github: https://github.com/nicolinc/iommufd/commits/smmuv3_ste_fixes/ A host kernel must apply this to fix the bug. Jason Gunthorpe (3): iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add ignored bits to fix STE update sequence iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Ignore STE MEV when computing the update sequence iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Ignore STE EATS when computing the update sequence Nicolin Chen (1): iommu/arm-smmu-v3-test: Add nested s1bypass coverage drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h | 2 + .../iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-test.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++-- drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 49 ++++++++++++++----- 3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) base-commit: 0d081b16946ef449fcb35b6edc1ef6f9fea6f0a0 -- 2.43.0