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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] iommu/vt-d: skip RMRR entries that fail the sanity check
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On 12/11/2019 11:46 AM, Barret Rhoden wrote:
> RMRR entries describe memory regions that are DMA targets for devices
> outside the kernel's control.
>
> RMRR entries that fail the sanity check are pointing to regions of
> memory that the firmware did not tell the kernel are reserved or
> otherwise should not be used.
>
> Instead of aborting DMAR processing, this commit skips these RMRR
> entries. They will not be mapped into the IOMMU, but the IOMMU can
> still be utilized. If anything, when the IOMMU is on, those devices
> will not be able to clobber RAM that the kernel has allocated from those
> regions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> index f168cd8ee570..f7e09244c9e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> @@ -4316,7 +4316,7 @@ int __init dmar_parse_one_rmrr(struct acpi_dmar_header *header, void *arg)
> rmrr = (struct acpi_dmar_reserved_memory *)header;
> ret = arch_rmrr_sanity_check(rmrr);
> if (ret)
> - return ret;
> + return 0;
>
> rmrru = kzalloc(sizeof(*rmrru), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!rmrru)
Parsing rmrr function should report the error to caller. The behavior to
response the error can be
chose  by the caller in the calling stack, for example,
dmar_walk_remapping_entries().
A concern is that ignoring a detected firmware bug might have a
potential side impact though
it seemed safe for your case.

Thanks,
Yian

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