Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] PCI / iommu / thunderbolt: IOMMU based DMA protection

2018-12-05 Thread Mika Westerberg
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 06:51:49PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote: > Recent systems with Thunderbolt ports may be utilizing IOMMU to prevent DMA > attacks. This is different from the previous security level based scheme > because the connected device cannot access system memory outside of the >

[PATCH v3 0/4] PCI / iommu / thunderbolt: IOMMU based DMA protection

2018-11-29 Thread Mika Westerberg
Recent systems with Thunderbolt ports may be utilizing IOMMU to prevent DMA attacks. This is different from the previous security level based scheme because the connected device cannot access system memory outside of the regions allocated for it by the driver. When enabled the BIOS makes sure no