Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 3 authors, 2026-01-10

Re: [PATCH v8 1/5] iommu: Lock group->mutex in iommu_deferred_attach()

From: Samiullah Khawaja <hidden>
Date: 2025-12-16 01:14:23
Also in: kvm, linux-acpi, linux-iommu, linux-patches, linux-pci, lkml

On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM Nicolin Chen [off-list ref] wrote:
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The iommu_deferred_attach() function invokes __iommu_attach_device(), but
doesn't hold the group->mutex like other __iommu_attach_device() callers.

Though there is no pratical bug being triggered so far, it would be better
to apply the same locking to this __iommu_attach_device(), since the IOMMU
drivers nowaday are more aware of the group->mutex -- some of them use the
iommu_group_mutex_assert() function that could be potentially in the path
of an attach_dev callback function invoked by the __iommu_attach_device().

Worth mentioning that the iommu_deferred_attach() will soon need to check
group->resetting_domain that must be locked also.

Thus, grab the mutex to guard __iommu_attach_device() like other callers.

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Dheeraj Kumar Srivastava <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <redacted>
---
 drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
index 2ca990dfbb88..170e522b5bda 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
@@ -2185,10 +2185,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iommu_attach_device);

 int iommu_deferred_attach(struct device *dev, struct iommu_domain *domain)
 {
-       if (dev->iommu && dev->iommu->attach_deferred)
-               return __iommu_attach_device(domain, dev, NULL);
+       /*
+        * This is called on the dma mapping fast path so avoid locking. This is
+        * racy, but we have an expectation that the driver will setup its DMAs
+        * inside probe while being single threaded to avoid racing.
+        */
+       if (!dev->iommu || !dev->iommu->attach_deferred)
+               return 0;

-       return 0;
+       guard(mutex)(&dev->iommu_group->mutex);
+
+       return __iommu_attach_device(domain, dev, NULL);
 }

 void iommu_detach_device(struct iommu_domain *domain, struct device *dev)
--
2.43.0
Reviewed-by: Samiullah Khawaja <redacted>
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