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[PATCH v2 for-4.22? 6/7] x86/domctl: don't imply I/O port permissions from I/O port mapping


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  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:30:04 +0200
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  • Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>, Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:30:12 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

Rather than granting permissions when mapping (an operation that DM-s are
allowed to carry out, while they can't invoke ioport-permission), check
whether permissions actually were granted when adding a mapping. This then
also allows relaxing the necessary locking.

While no longer granting permissions upon mapping is "only" at risk of
breaking guests, no longer revoking permissions upon unmapping strictly
requires callers to additionally invoke XEN_DOMCTL_ioport_permission. Or
else a security issue would arise. In-tree code already does so.

While there switch to using %pd in the two log messages.

Fixes: 192c4dabc344 ("domctl and p2m changes for PCI passthru")
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
---
libxl has libxl__grant_vga_iomem_permission(), but I can't spot any I/O
port equivalent (nor a revoke counterpart, btw). Everywhere else MMIO and
I/O ports look to be treated equally.

Qemu uses both xc_domain_{iomem_permission,memory_mapping}() in
igd_write_opregion(), but only xc_domain_{memory,ioport}_mapping() in
xen_pt_region_update() and xen_pt_{,un}register_vga_regions(). Is the IGD
region special in any way? Clearly this can't work from a stubdom.
---
v2: Avoid double evaluation of "add". Add ChangeLog entry.

--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog
  - On x86:
    - Enable pf-fixup option by default for PVH dom0.
    - The libxenguest bzImage loader now uses the system liblz4 library.
+   - XEN_DOMCTL_ioport_mapping no longer implicitly grants permissions for the
+     port range in question.  XEN_DOMCTL_ioport_permission now needs invoking
+     up front.
 
 ### Added
  - Support for per-domain Xenstore quota in C xenstored (includes
--- a/xen/arch/x86/domctl.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/domctl.c
@@ -714,15 +714,35 @@ long arch_do_domctl(
             break;
 
         hvm = &d->arch.hvm;
-        iocaps_double_lock(d, true);
+        /*
+         * NB: The double lock isn't really needed when !add, but is used 
anyway
+         * to keep things simple.
+         */
+        iocaps_double_lock(d, false);
 
         if ( !ioports_access_permitted(currd, fmp, fmp + np - 1) )
             ret = -EPERM;
-        else if ( add )
+        else if ( !add )
         {
             printk(XENLOG_G_INFO
-                   "ioport_map:add: dom%d gport=%x mport=%x nr=%x\n",
-                   d->domain_id, fgp, fmp, np);
+                   "ioport_map:remove: %pd gport=%x mport=%x nr=%x\n",
+                   d, fgp, fmp, np);
+
+            write_lock(&hvm->g2m_ioport_lock);
+            list_for_each_entry(g2m_ioport, &hvm->g2m_ioport_list, list)
+                if ( g2m_ioport->mport == fmp )
+                {
+                    list_del(&g2m_ioport->list);
+                    xfree(g2m_ioport);
+                    break;
+                }
+            write_unlock(&hvm->g2m_ioport_lock);
+        }
+        else if ( ioports_access_permitted(d, fmp, fmp + np - 1) )
+        {
+            printk(XENLOG_G_INFO
+                   "ioport_map:add: %pd gport=%x mport=%x nr=%x\n",
+                   d, fgp, fmp, np);
 
             write_lock(&hvm->g2m_ioport_lock);
             list_for_each_entry(g2m_ioport, &hvm->g2m_ioport_list, list)
@@ -747,40 +767,11 @@ long arch_do_domctl(
                 list_add_tail(&g2m_ioport->list, &hvm->g2m_ioport_list);
             }
             write_unlock(&hvm->g2m_ioport_lock);
-            if ( !ret )
-                ret = ioports_permit_access(d, fmp, fmp + np - 1);
-            if ( ret && !found && g2m_ioport )
-            {
-                write_lock(&hvm->g2m_ioport_lock);
-                list_del(&g2m_ioport->list);
-                write_unlock(&hvm->g2m_ioport_lock);
-                xfree(g2m_ioport);
-            }
         }
         else
-        {
-            printk(XENLOG_G_INFO
-                   "ioport_map:remove: dom%d gport=%x mport=%x nr=%x\n",
-                   d->domain_id, fgp, fmp, np);
-
-            write_lock(&hvm->g2m_ioport_lock);
-            list_for_each_entry(g2m_ioport, &hvm->g2m_ioport_list, list)
-                if ( g2m_ioport->mport == fmp )
-                {
-                    list_del(&g2m_ioport->list);
-                    xfree(g2m_ioport);
-                    break;
-                }
-            write_unlock(&hvm->g2m_ioport_lock);
-
-            ret = ioports_deny_access(d, fmp, fmp + np - 1);
-            if ( ret && is_hardware_domain(currd) )
-                printk(XENLOG_ERR
-                       "ioport_map: error %ld denying dom%d access to 
[%x,%x]\n",
-                       ret, d->domain_id, fmp, fmp + np - 1);
-        }
+            ret = -EPERM;
 
-        iocaps_double_unlock(d, true);
+        iocaps_double_unlock(d, false);
         break;
     }
 




 


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