s390/zcrypt: AP bus support for alternate driver(s)
The current AP bus, AP devices and AP device drivers implementation uses a clearly defined mapping for binding AP devices to AP device drivers. So for example a CEX6C queue will always be bound to the cex4queue device driver. The Linux Device Driver model has no sensitivity for more than one device driver eligible for one device type. If there exist more than one drivers matching to the device type, simple all drivers are tried consecutively. There is no way to determine and influence the probing order of the drivers. With KVM there is a need to provide additional device drivers matching to the very same type of AP devices. With a simple implementation the KVM drivers run in competition to the regular drivers. Whichever 'wins' a device depends on build order and implementation details within the common Linux Device Driver Model and is not deterministic. However, a userspace process could figure out which device should be bound to which driver and sort out the correct binding by manipulating attributes in the sysfs. If for security reasons a AP device must not get bound to the 'wrong' device driver the sorting out has to be done within the Linux kernel by the AP bus code. This patch modifies the behavior of the AP bus for probing drivers for devices in a way that two sets of drivers are usable. Two new bitmasks 'apmask' and 'aqmask' are used to mark a subset of the APQN range for 'usable by the ap bus and the default drivers' or 'not usable by the default drivers and thus available for alternate drivers like vfio-xxx'. So an APQN which is addressed by this masking only the default drivers will be probed. In contrary an APQN which is not addressed by the masks will never be probed and bound to default drivers but onny to alternate drivers. Eventually the two masks give a way to divide the range of APQNs into two pools: one pool of APQNs used by the AP bus and the default drivers and thus via zcrypt drivers available to the userspace of the system. And another pool where no zcrypt drivers are bound to and which can be used by alternate drivers (like vfio-xxx) for their needs. This division is hot-plug save and makes sure a APQN assigned to an alternate driver is at no time somehow exploitable by the wrong party. The two masks are located in sysfs at /sys/bus/ap/apmask and /sys/bus/ap/aqmask. The mask syntax is exactly the same as the already existing mask attributes in the /sys/bus/ap directory (for example ap_usage_domain_mask and ap_control_domain_mask). By default all APQNs belong to the ap bus and the default drivers: cat /sys/bus/ap/apmask 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff cat /sys/bus/ap/aqmask 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff The masks can be changed at boot time with the kernel command line like this: ... ap.apmask=0xffff ap.aqmask=0x40 This would give these two pools: default drivers pool: adapter 0 - 15, domain 1 alternate drivers pool: adapter 0 - 15, all but domain 1 adapter 16-255, all domains The sysfs attributes for this two masks are writeable and an administrator is able to reconfigure the assignements on the fly by writing new mask values into. With changing the mask(s) a revision of the existing queue to driver bindings is done. So all APQNs which are bound to the 'wrong' driver are reprobed via kernel function device_reprobe() and thus the new correct driver will be assigned with respect of the changed apmask and aqmask bits. The mask values are bitmaps in big endian order starting with bit 0. So adapter number 0 is the leftmost bit, mask is 0x8000... The sysfs attributes accept 2 different formats: - Absolute hex string starting with 0x like "0x12345678" does set the mask starting from left to right. If the given string is shorter than the mask it is padded with 0s on the right. If the string is longer than the mask an error comes back (EINVAL). - '+' or '-' followed by a numerical value. Valid examples are "+1", "-13", "+0x41", "-0xff" and even "+0" and "-0". Only the addressed bit in the mask is switched on ('+') or off ('-'). This patch will also be the base for an upcoming extension to the zcrypt drivers to be able to provide additional zcrypt device nodes with filtering based on ap and aq masks. Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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