On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 04:30:43PM -0800, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> There is a DoS concern on the shared hardware event queue among devices
> passed through to VMs, that too many translation failures that belong to
> VMs could overflow the shared hardware event queue if those VMs or their
> VMMs don't handle/recover the devices properly.
> 
> The MEV bit in the STE allows to configure the SMMU HW to merge similar
> event records, though there is no guarantee. Set it in a nested STE for
> DoS mitigations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicol...@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h         | 1 +
>  drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd.c | 2 ++
>  drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c         | 4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <j...@nvidia.com>

> --- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
> @@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ void arm_smmu_get_ste_used(const __le64 *ent, __le64 
> *used_bits)
>                       cpu_to_le64(STRTAB_STE_1_S1DSS | STRTAB_STE_1_S1CIR |
>                                   STRTAB_STE_1_S1COR | STRTAB_STE_1_S1CSH |
>                                   STRTAB_STE_1_S1STALLD | STRTAB_STE_1_STRW |
> -                                 STRTAB_STE_1_EATS);
> +                                 STRTAB_STE_1_EATS | STRTAB_STE_1_MEV);
>               used_bits[2] |= cpu_to_le64(STRTAB_STE_2_S2VMID);

You also ran the test suite?

Jason

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