[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 1/1] vfio: remove VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM

[hch at infradead.org]

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 06:43:06AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > This fixes a user-triggerable oops in GVT.
> 
> No changelog.

??

the cover latter clearly states what has changed since v1, and this
patch has a good commit log.  This is exactly how it is supposed to
be done.

> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato at linux.ibm.com>
> 
> Not sure whether Christoph wants a s-o-b here when he wrote
> the snippet to remove the release work of gvt...

That's just tivial code removal, so no.

> 
> > @@ -1083,11 +1083,22 @@ static struct file *vfio_device_open(struct
> > vfio_device *device)
> > 
> >  	mutex_lock(&device->dev_set->lock);
> >  	device->open_count++;
> > +	down_read(&device->group->group_rwsem);
> > +	if (device->open_count == 1 && device->group->kvm) {
> > +		/*
> > +		 * Here we pass the KVM pointer with the group under the
> > read
> > +		 * lock.  If the device driver will use it, it must obtain a
> > +		 * reference and release it during close_device.
> > +		 */
> > +		device->kvm = device->group->kvm;
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	if (device->open_count == 1 && device->ops->open_device) {
> 
> Merge the two branches so both are under if (device->open_count == 1) {}
> (and group_rwsem can be also moved inside)

Yeah.  And we don't really need the device->group->kvm check, as
it would otherwise assign NULL which is perfectly fine.

But otherwise this also looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>