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[PATCH v9 11/12] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Skip RMR bypass for kdump adoption

From: Nicolin Chen <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-21 21:39:23
Also in: linux-iommu, lkml
Subsystem: arm smmu drivers, iommu subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Will Deacon, Joerg Roedel, Linus Torvalds

RMR bypass STEs are installed during SMMUv3 probe for StreamIDs listed by
IORT RMR nodes. A normal boot switches the driver to a fresh stream table
whose initial STEs abort, so those RMR SIDs need bypass entries before it
becomes live. This preserves firmware/guest-owned traffic, including vSMMU
guest MSI cases built around RMR-described SIDs.

ARM_SMMU_OPT_KDUMP_ADOPT is the opposite case: the driver keeps SMMUEN set
and adopts the crashed kernel's stream table, so RMR SIDs already have the
only translation state known to be safe for active in-flight DMA. Replacing
an adopted STE with bypass can turn translated DMA into physical DMA, then
point it at the wrong memory.

arm_smmu_make_bypass_ste() also rewrites the STE in place after clearing it
first. While the table is live, a concurrent hardware STE fetch can observe
V=0 or mixed old/new state.

Leaving the adopted STE unmodified keeps the kdump kernel using the crashed
kernel's translation. That gives the endpoint driver a chance to probe and
quiesce the device.

If the old STE was already abort or invalid, installing bypass would create
new DMA permission; leaving it alone is a safer failure mode. Later domain
setup still gets the RMR direct mappings through the reserved-region path.

Reviewed-by: Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@google.com>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <redacted>
---
 drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
index aff7b6b4527a5..168865af868ad 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
@@ -5421,6 +5421,14 @@ static void arm_smmu_rmr_install_bypass_ste(struct arm_smmu_device *smmu)
 	struct list_head rmr_list;
 	struct iommu_resv_region *e;
 
+	/*
+	 * Kdump adoption keeps the crashed kernel's table live. Rewriting the
+	 * adopted STE here could expose an in-flight fetch to a transient V=0
+	 * entry, or change Cfg=translate to Cfg=bypass. Must skip here.
+	 */
+	if (smmu->options & ARM_SMMU_OPT_KDUMP_ADOPT)
+		return;
+
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rmr_list);
 	iort_get_rmr_sids(dev_fwnode(smmu->dev), &rmr_list);
 
@@ -5437,10 +5445,7 @@ static void arm_smmu_rmr_install_bypass_ste(struct arm_smmu_device *smmu)
 				continue;
 			}
 
-			/*
-			 * STE table is not programmed to HW, see
-			 * arm_smmu_initial_bypass_stes()
-			 */
+			/* The fresh stream table is not yet live. */
 			arm_smmu_make_bypass_ste(smmu,
 				arm_smmu_get_step_for_sid(smmu, rmr->sids[i]));
 		}
-- 
2.43.0

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