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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-12-28 20:54:57 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-12-28 20:54:57 -0800 |
commit | 457fa3469a65a524be04412f5cd497fa3b11c9fd (patch) | |
tree | e826786d7838668595dfac115ced53b32e5c97b9 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
parent | b07039b79c9ea64c1eacda1e01d645082e4a0d5d (diff) | |
parent | fbc4904c287778ddb74bf6060ac9dec51992fc53 (diff) |
Merge tag 'char-misc-4.21-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char and misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1.
Lots of different types of driver things in here, as this tree seems
to be the "collection of various driver subsystems not big enough to
have their own git tree" lately.
Anyway, some highlights of the changes in here:
- binderfs: is it a rule that all driver subsystems will eventually
grow to have their own filesystem? Binder now has one to handle the
use of it in containerized systems.
This was discussed at the Plumbers conference a few months ago and
knocked into mergable shape very fast by Christian Brauner. Who
also has signed up to be another binder maintainer, showing a
distinct lack of good judgement :)
- binder updates and fixes
- mei driver updates
- fpga driver updates and additions
- thunderbolt driver updates
- soundwire driver updates
- extcon driver updates
- nvmem driver updates
- hyper-v driver updates
- coresight driver updates
- pvpanic driver additions and reworking for more device support
- lp driver updates. Yes really, it's _finally_ moved to the proper
parallal port driver model, something I never thought I would see
happen. Good stuff.
- other tiny driver updates and fixes.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.21-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (116 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add another Android binder maintainer
intel_th: msu: Fix an off-by-one in attribute store
stm class: Add a reference to the SyS-T document
stm class: Fix a module refcount leak in policy creation error path
char: lp: use new parport device model
char: lp: properly count the lp devices
char: lp: use first unused lp number while registering
char: lp: detach the device when parallel port is removed
char: lp: introduce list to save port number
bus: qcom: remove duplicated include from qcom-ebi2.c
VMCI: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation
char/rtc: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons
misc: mic: fix a DMA pool free failure
ptp: fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check
genwqe: Fix size check
binder: implement binderfs
binder: fix use-after-free due to ksys_close() during fdget()
bus: fsl-mc: remove duplicated include files
bus: fsl-mc: explicitly define the fsl_mc_command endianness
misc: ti-st: make array read_ver_cmd static, shrinks object size
...
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst index 35fccba6a9a6..898ad78f3cc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst @@ -133,6 +133,26 @@ If the user still wants to connect the device they can either approve the device without a key or write a new key and write 1 to the ``authorized`` file to get the new key stored on the device NVM. +DMA protection utilizing IOMMU +------------------------------ +Recent systems from 2018 and forward with Thunderbolt ports may natively +support IOMMU. This means that Thunderbolt security is handled by an IOMMU +so connected devices cannot access memory regions outside of what is +allocated for them by drivers. When Linux is running on such system it +automatically enables IOMMU if not enabled by the user already. These +systems can be identified by reading ``1`` from +``/sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices/domainX/iommu_dma_protection`` attribute. + +The driver does not do anything special in this case but because DMA +protection is handled by the IOMMU, security levels (if set) are +redundant. For this reason some systems ship with security level set to +``none``. Other systems have security level set to ``user`` in order to +support downgrade to older OS, so users who want to automatically +authorize devices when IOMMU DMA protection is enabled can use the +following ``udev`` rule:: + + ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="thunderbolt", ATTRS{iommu_dma_protection}=="1", ATTR{authorized}=="0", ATTR{authorized}="1" + Upgrading NVM on Thunderbolt device or host ------------------------------------------- Since most of the functionality is handled in firmware running on a |