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From:   Rajat Jain <rajatxjain@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jan 2022 07:08:06 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: ACPI: Allow internal devices to be marked as untrusted
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@google.com>
Cc:     Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
        Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Jesse Barnes <jsbarnes@google.com>
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Hi Dmitry, Bjorn,

Thanks for your review and comments.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 6:25 PM Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@google.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rajat,
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 4:04 PM Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Today the pci_dev->untrusted is set for any devices sitting downstream
> > an external facing port (determined via "ExternalFacingPort" property).
> > This however, disallows any internal devices to be marked as untrusted.
> >
> > There are use-cases though, where a platform would like to treat an
> > internal device as untrusted (perhaps because it runs untrusted
> > firmware, or offers an attack surface by handling untrusted network
> > data etc).
> >
> > This patch introduces a new "UntrustedDevice" property that can be used
> > by the firmware to mark any device as untrusted.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c b/drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
> > index a42dbf448860..3d9e5fa49451 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
> > @@ -1350,12 +1350,25 @@ static void pci_acpi_set_external_facing(struct pci_dev *dev)
> >                 dev->external_facing = 1;
> >  }
> >
> > +static void pci_acpi_set_untrusted(struct pci_dev *dev)
> > +{
> > +       u8 val;
> > +
> > +       if (device_property_read_u8(&dev->dev, "UntrustedDevice", &val))
> > +               return;
> > +
> > +       /* These PCI devices are not trustworthy */
> > +       if (val)
> > +               dev->untrusted = 1;
>
> Should this all be replaced with:
>
> dev->untrusted = device_property_read_bool(&dev->dev, "UntrustedDevice");
>
> ?

Ack, yes, I will do this.

>
> Also, is this ACPI-specific? Why won't we need this for DT systems (or
> do we already have this)?.

Good point. Ack, Yes, I don't mind doing this for DT systems also. I
wanted to get some feedback and acceptance within the PCI subsystem on
the general idea of this property though. Bjorn?

Thanks & Best Regards,

Rajat

>
> Thanks,
> Dmitry