From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia•com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel•com>
Cc: "will@kernel•org" <will@kernel•org>,
"robin.murphy@arm•com" <robin.murphy@arm•com>,
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Vikram Sethi <vsethi@nvidia•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Quarantine device upon ATC invalidation timeout
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:10:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abtpCXAnqLRnbG1z@Asurada-Nvidia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN9PR11MB52764771C48B39C09F129F218C4FA@BN9PR11MB5276.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 02:29:38AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > > > This series addresses a critical vulnerability and stability issue where an
> > > > unresponsive PCIe device failing to process ATC (Address Translation
> > Cache)
> > > > invalidation requests leads to silent data corruption and continuous
> > SMMU
> > > > CMDQ error spam.
> > > >
> > >
> > > None of the patches in this series contains a Fixed tag and cc stable.
> >
> > Hmm, I guess AI overly polished the cover letter so it sounds too
> > strong?
> >
> > This is essentially a vulnerability (potential memory corruption).
> > And none of these patches actually fixes any regression. The PATCH
> > 7 even requires the arm_smmu_invs series which has not been merged
> > yet :-/
> >
>
> Fixes tag and backporting are not just for regression. People certainly
> want to see reported vulnerabilities fixed in stable kernels...
Well, maybe I'll just leave additional line telling people that this
can't be a bug "fix" because it's written on another unmerged series?
Nicolin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-19 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-17 19:15 [PATCH v2 0/7] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Quarantine device upon ATC invalidation timeout Nicolin Chen
2026-03-17 19:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] iommu: Do not call pci_dev_reset_iommu_done() unless reset succeeds Nicolin Chen
2026-03-18 7:21 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-03-18 20:16 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-18 8:02 ` Shuai Xue
2026-03-18 20:27 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-17 19:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] iommu: Add reset_device_done callback for hardware fault recovery Nicolin Chen
2026-03-18 5:59 ` Baolu Lu
2026-03-18 18:42 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-17 19:15 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] iommu: Add iommu_report_device_broken() to quarantine a broken device Nicolin Chen
2026-03-18 6:13 ` Baolu Lu
2026-03-19 1:31 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-18 7:31 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-03-19 1:30 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-19 2:35 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-03-19 3:13 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-18 11:45 ` Shuai Xue
2026-03-18 20:29 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-17 19:15 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Mark ATC invalidate timeouts via lockless bitmap Nicolin Chen
2026-03-18 7:36 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-03-18 19:26 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-18 22:06 ` Samiullah Khawaja
2026-03-19 3:08 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-03-19 3:12 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-23 23:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-10 7:39 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-03-18 22:02 ` Samiullah Khawaja
2026-03-18 23:23 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-19 0:08 ` Samiullah Khawaja
2026-03-19 1:15 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-23 23:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-03-24 1:21 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-17 19:15 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Replace smmu with master in arm_smmu_inv Nicolin Chen
2026-03-17 19:15 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Introduce master->ats_broken flag Nicolin Chen
2026-03-18 7:39 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-03-18 20:00 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-17 19:15 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Block ATS upon an ATC invalidation timeout Nicolin Chen
2026-03-19 2:56 ` Shuai Xue
2026-03-19 3:26 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-19 7:41 ` Shuai Xue
2026-03-18 7:47 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Quarantine device upon " Tian, Kevin
2026-03-18 20:04 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-19 2:29 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-03-19 3:10 ` Nicolin Chen [this message]
2026-03-24 0:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-03-24 1:30 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-03-25 6:55 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-03-25 14:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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