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Date:   Thu, 4 Apr 2019 16:00:05 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/arm-smmu: Break insecure users by disabling
 bypass by default
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 11:20:17AM -0800, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> If you're bisecting why your peripherals stopped working, it's
> probably this CL.  Specifically if you see this in your dmesg:
>   Unexpected global fault, this could be serious
> ...then it's almost certainly this CL.
> 
> Running your IOMMU-enabled peripherals with the IOMMU in bypass mode
> is insecure and effectively disables the protection they provide.
> There are few reasons to allow unmatched stream bypass, and even fewer
> good ones.
> 
> This patch starts the transition over to make it much harder to run
> your system insecurely.  Expected steps:
> 
> 1. By default disable bypass (so anyone insecure will notice) but make
>    it easy for someone to re-enable bypass with just a KConfig change.
>    That's this patch.
> 
> 2. After people have had a little time to come to grips with the fact
>    that they need to set their IOMMUs properly and have had time to
>    dig into how to do this, the KConfig will be eliminated and bypass
>    will simply be disabled.  Folks who are truly upset and still
>    haven't fixed their system can either figure out how to add
>    'arm-smmu.disable_bypass=n' to their command line or revert the
>    patch in their own private kernel.  Of course these folks will be
>    less secure.
> 
> Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Flipped default to 'yes' and changed comments a lot.
> 
>  drivers/iommu/Kconfig    | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c |  3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Cheers, I'll pick this one up for 5.2.

Will