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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:21:35 +0000 (11:21 +0100)
commit9f0a7ab700f8620e433b05c57fbd26c92ea186d9
tree9c3e6d4e1f95d0bb0d8ac6b5ebe708f5d079555c
parentb3039c526f3e1744db0cbb7ae1f0213f5e27d3f4
iommu/sva: invalidate stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space

commit e37d5a2d60a338c5917c45296bac65da1382eda5 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/Kconfig
drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c
include/linux/iommu.h
mm/pgtable-generic.c