[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v10 07/22] vfio: Block device access via device fd until device is opened

Yi Liu yi.l.liu at intel.com
Wed Apr 26 15:03:06 UTC 2023


Allow the vfio_device file to be in a state where the device FD is
opened but the device cannot be used by userspace (i.e. its .open_device()
hasn't been called). This inbetween state is not used when the device
FD is spawned from the group FD, however when we create the device FD
directly by opening a cdev it will be opened in the blocked state.

The reason for the inbetween state is that userspace only gets a FD but
doesn't gain access permission until binding the FD to an iommufd. So in
the blocked state, only the bind operation is allowed. Completing bind
will allow user to further access the device.

This is implemented by adding a flag in struct vfio_device_file to mark
the blocked state and using a simple smp_load_acquire() to obtain the
flag value and serialize all the device setup with the thread accessing
this device.

Following this lockless scheme, it can safely handle the device FD
unbound->bound but it cannot handle bound->unbound. To allow this we'd
need to add a lock on all the vfio ioctls which seems costly. So once
device FD is bound, it remains bound until the FD is closed.

Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger at redhat.com>
Tested-by: Terrence Xu <terrence.xu at intel.com>
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc at nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato at linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Yanting Jiang <yanting.jiang at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu at intel.com>
---
 drivers/vfio/group.c     | 11 ++++++++++-
 drivers/vfio/vfio.h      |  1 +
 drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/group.c b/drivers/vfio/group.c
index 3cd373ffd308..95a2d67153f5 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/group.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/group.c
@@ -194,9 +194,18 @@ static int vfio_device_group_open(struct vfio_device_file *df)
 	df->iommufd = device->group->iommufd;
 
 	ret = vfio_device_open(df);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
 		df->iommufd = NULL;
+		goto out_put_kvm;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Paired with smp_load_acquire() in vfio_device_fops::ioctl/
+	 * read/write/mmap and vfio_file_has_device_access()
+	 */
+	smp_store_release(&df->access_granted, true);
 
+out_put_kvm:
 	if (device->open_count == 0)
 		vfio_device_put_kvm(device);
 
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
index f1da4378269d..aad94bf60ee2 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ struct vfio_container;
 
 struct vfio_device_file {
 	struct vfio_device *device;
+	bool access_granted;
 	spinlock_t kvm_ref_lock; /* protect kvm field */
 	struct kvm *kvm;
 	struct iommufd_ctx *iommufd; /* protected by struct vfio_device_set::lock */
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
index 1a6d163f0e02..e097237264e0 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
@@ -1118,6 +1118,10 @@ static long vfio_device_fops_unl_ioctl(struct file *filep,
 	struct vfio_device *device = df->device;
 	int ret;
 
+	/* Paired with smp_store_release() following vfio_device_open() */
+	if (!smp_load_acquire(&df->access_granted))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	ret = vfio_device_pm_runtime_get(device);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
@@ -1145,6 +1149,10 @@ static ssize_t vfio_device_fops_read(struct file *filep, char __user *buf,
 	struct vfio_device_file *df = filep->private_data;
 	struct vfio_device *device = df->device;
 
+	/* Paired with smp_store_release() following vfio_device_open() */
+	if (!smp_load_acquire(&df->access_granted))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (unlikely(!device->ops->read))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -1158,6 +1166,10 @@ static ssize_t vfio_device_fops_write(struct file *filep,
 	struct vfio_device_file *df = filep->private_data;
 	struct vfio_device *device = df->device;
 
+	/* Paired with smp_store_release() following vfio_device_open() */
+	if (!smp_load_acquire(&df->access_granted))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (unlikely(!device->ops->write))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -1169,6 +1181,10 @@ static int vfio_device_fops_mmap(struct file *filep, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	struct vfio_device_file *df = filep->private_data;
 	struct vfio_device *device = df->device;
 
+	/* Paired with smp_store_release() following vfio_device_open() */
+	if (!smp_load_acquire(&df->access_granted))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (unlikely(!device->ops->mmap))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-- 
2.34.1



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