Changelog: v4: * Changed DMA_RESV_USAGE_KERNEL to DMA_RESV_USAGE_BOOKKEEP. * Made .invalidate_mapping() truly optional. * Added patch which renames dma_buf_move_notify() to be dma_buf_invalidate_mappings(). * Restored dma_buf_attachment_is_dynamic() function. v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260120-dmabuf-revoke-v3-0-b7e0b07b8214@nvidia.... * Used Jason's wordings for commits and cover letter. * Removed IOMMUFD patch. * Renamed dma_buf_attachment_is_revoke() to be dma_buf_attach_revocable(). * Added patch to remove CONFIG_DMABUF_MOVE_NOTIFY. * Added Reviewed-by tags. * Called to dma_resv_wait_timeout() after dma_buf_move_notify() in VFIO. * Added dma_buf_attach_revocable() check to VFIO DMABUF attach function. * Slightly changed commit messages. v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260118-dmabuf-revoke-v2-0-a03bb27c0875@nvidia.com * Changed series to document the revoke semantics instead of implementing it. v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260111-dmabuf-revoke-v1-0-fb4bcc8c259b@nvidia.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------- This series documents a dma-buf “revoke” mechanism: to allow a dma-buf exporter to explicitly invalidate (“kill”) a shared buffer after it has been distributed to importers, so that further CPU and device access is prevented and importers reliably observe failure.
The change in this series is to properly document and use existing core “revoked” state on the dma-buf object and a corresponding exporter-triggered revoke operation.
dma-buf has quietly allowed calling move_notify on pinned dma-bufs, even though legacy importers using dma_buf_attach() would simply ignore these calls.
RDMA saw this and needed to use allow_peer2peer=true, so implemented a new-style pinned importer with an explicitly non-working move_notify() callback.
This has been tolerable because the existing exporters are thought to only call move_notify() on a pinned DMABUF under RAS events and we have been willing to tolerate the UAF that results by allowing the importer to continue to use the mapping in this rare case.
VFIO wants to implement a pin supporting exporter that will issue a revoking move_notify() around FLRs and a few other user triggerable operations. Since this is much more common we are not willing to tolerate the security UAF caused by interworking with non-move_notify() supporting drivers. Thus till now VFIO has required dynamic importers, even though it never actually moves the buffer location.
To allow VFIO to work with pinned importers, according to how dma-buf was intended, we need to allow VFIO to detect if an importer is legacy or RDMA and does not actually implement move_notify().
In theory all exporters that call move_notify() on pinned dma-buf's should call this function, however that would break a number of widely used NIC/GPU flows. Thus for now do not spread this further than VFIO until we can understand how much of RDMA can implement the full semantic.
In the process clarify how move_notify is intended to be used with pinned dma-bufs.
Thanks
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky leonro@nvidia.com --- Leon Romanovsky (8): dma-buf: Rename .move_notify() callback to a clearer identifier dma-buf: Rename dma_buf_move_notify() to dma_buf_invalidate_mappings() dma-buf: Always build with DMABUF_MOVE_NOTIFY dma-buf: Make .invalidate_mapping() truly optional dma-buf: Add check function for revoke semantics iommufd: Pin dma-buf importer for revoke semantics vfio: Wait for dma-buf invalidation to complete vfio: Validate dma-buf revocation semantics
drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig | 12 ------- drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++------- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_dma_buf.c | 14 +++----- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_prime.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/tests/xe_dma_buf.c | 7 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_dma_buf.c | 14 +++----- drivers/infiniband/core/umem_dmabuf.c | 13 ------- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c | 2 +- drivers/iommu/iommufd/pages.c | 11 ++++-- drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c | 2 +- drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c | 13 +++++-- include/linux/dma-buf.h | 9 ++--- 15 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 9ace4753a5202b02191d54e9fdf7f9e3d02b85eb change-id: 20251221-dmabuf-revoke-b90ef16e4236
Best regards, -- Leon Romanovsky leonro@nvidia.com