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iommu/sva: invalidate stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space
authorLu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:26:34 +0000 (16:26 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 17 Nov 2025 01:28:18 +0000 (17:28 -0800)
commite37d5a2d60a338c5917c45296bac65da1382eda5
treeab2e1514d493aa30b474f9a35f6b167d2e78645f
parent5ba2f0a1556479638ac11a3c201421f5515e89f5
iommu/sva: invalidate stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space

Introduce a new IOMMU interface to flush IOTLB paging cache entries for
the CPU kernel address space.  This interface is invoked from the x86
architecture code that manages combined user and kernel page tables,
specifically before any kernel page table page is freed and reused.

This addresses the main issue with vfree() which is a common occurrence
and can be triggered by unprivileged users.  While this resolves the
primary problem, it doesn't address some extremely rare case related to
memory unplug of memory that was present as reserved memory at boot, which
cannot be triggered by unprivileged users.  The discussion can be found at
the link below.

Enable SVA on x86 architecture since the IOMMU can now receive
notification to flush the paging cache before freeing the CPU kernel page
table pages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082635.2462433-9-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/04983c62-3b1d-40d4-93ae-34ca04b827e5@intel.com/
Co-developed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robin Murohy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/Kconfig
drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c
include/linux/iommu.h
mm/pgtable-generic.c