[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3] vfio: fix deadlock between group lock and kvm lock
Alex Williamson
alex.williamson at redhat.com
Fri Feb 3 20:35:03 UTC 2023
On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 12:29:01 -0500
Matthew Rosato <mjrosato at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 2/3/23 10:19 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 14:54:44 +0000
> > "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
> >>> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 9:50 PM
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 13:32:09 +0000
> >>> "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu at intel.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> From: Tian, Kevin <kevin.tian at intel.com>
> >>>>> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:00 AM
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
> >>>>>> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 7:13 AM
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 23:04:10 +0000
> >>>>>> "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian at intel.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
> >>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 3:42 AM
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> LGTM. I'm not sure moving the functions to vfio_main really buys
> >>> us
> >>>>>>>> anything since we're making so much use of group fields. The cdev
> >>>>>>>> approach will necessarily be different, so the bulk of the get code
> >>> will
> >>>>>>>> likely need to move back to group.c anyway.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> well my last comment was based on Matthew's v2 where the get
> >>> code
> >>>>>>> gets a kvm passed in instead of implicitly retrieving group ref_lock
> >>>>>>> internally. In that case the get/put helpers only contain device logic
> >>>>>>> thus fit in vfio_main.c.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> with v3 then they have to be in group.c since we don't want to use
> >>>>>>> group fields in vfio_main.c.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> but I still think v2 of the helpers is slightly better. The only difference
> >>>>>>> between cdev and group when handling this race is using different
> >>>>>>> ref_lock. the symbol get/put part is exactly same. So even if we
> >>>>>>> merge v3 like this, very likely Yi has to change it back to v2 style
> >>>>>>> to share the get/put helpers while just leaving the ref_lock part
> >>>>>>> handled differently between the two path.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm not really a fan of the asymmetry of the v2 version where the get
> >>>>>> helper needs to be called under the new kvm_ref_lock, but the put
> >>>>>> helper does not. Having the get helper handle that makes the caller
> >>>>>> much cleaner. Thanks,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What about passing the lock pointer into the helper? it's still slightly
> >>>>> asymmetry as the put helper doesn't carry the lock pointer but it
> >>>>> could also be interpreted as if the pointer has been saved in the get
> >>>>> then if it needs to be referenced by the put there is no need to pass
> >>>>> it in again.
> >>>>
> >>>> For cdev, I may modify vfio_device_get_kvm_safe() to accept
> >>>> struct kvm and let its caller hold a kvm_ref_lock (field within
> >>>> struct vfio_device_file). Meanwhile, the group path holds
> >>>> the group->kvm_ref_lock before invoking vfio_device_get_kvm_safe().
> >>>> vfio_device_get_kvm_safe() just includes the symbol get/put and
> >>>> the device->kvm and put_kvm set.
> >>>
> >>> Sounds a lot like v2 :-\
> >>
> >> Yes, like v2. 😊
> >>
> >>> I'd look more towards group and cdev specific
> >>> helpers that handle the locking so that the callers aren't exposed to
> >>> the asymmetry of get vs put, and reduce a new
> >>> _vfio_device_get_kvm_safe() in common code that only does the symbol
> >>> work. Thanks,
> >>
> >> If so, looks like Matthew needs a v4. I'm waiting for the final version
> >> of this patch and sending a new cdev series based on it. wish to see
> >> it soon ^_^.
> >
> > cdev support is a future feature, why does it become a requirement for
> > a fix to the current base? The refactoring could also happen in the
> > cdev series. Thanks,
> >
> > Alex
> >
>
> FWIW, that would bloat the fix by a bit and it's already a decent-sized fix... I took a quick stab and such a v4 would end up with a total of 120 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-). See below for a diff of what I tried on top of v3. The idea would be to move the serialization and setting/clearing of device->kvm into group/cdev and use device->kvm as the value within vfio_device_get_kvm_safe for getting the kvm ref. Wrappers in group/cdev would then be responsible for backing that device->kvm setting out on ref failure.
> Each side (group/cdev) can wrap their own serialization / load device->kvm from the appropriate location / handle the failed get / clear device->kvm when done (since get doesn't set it, put shouldn't clear it).
>
> If Alex wants, I can wrap something like this into a v4 -- Or, if we don't want to include this kind of infrastructure in the fix, then Yi please feel free to use it as a starting point for what you need in cdev.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/group.c b/drivers/vfio/group.c
> index 7fed4233ca23..261af23975ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/group.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/group.c
> @@ -154,6 +154,31 @@ static int vfio_group_ioctl_set_container(struct vfio_group *group,
> return ret;
> }
>
> +static void vfio_device_group_get_kvm(struct vfio_device *device)
> +{
> + lockdep_assert_held(&device->dev_set->lock);
> +
> + spin_lock(&device->group->kvm_ref_lock);
> +
> + if (!device->group->kvm)
> + goto unlock;
> +
> + device->kvm = device->group->kvm;
> + if (!vfio_device_get_kvm_safe(device))
I'd probably go back to making this:
void _vfio_device_get_kvm_safe(struct vfio_device *device, struct kvm *kvm);
so the vfio_main function would handle setting and clearing
device->kvm. That way we could also move the lockdep into the
vfio_main functions. Once we do that, there's no reason to have a
group vs cdev put function and we end up with only a wrapper on the get
function, which should really never be used directly, so we prefix it
with an underscore.
At that point (see incremental diff below), it's about a wash. Current v3:
drivers/vfio/group.c | 32 +++++++++++++----
drivers/vfio/vfio.h | 14 +++++++
drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
include/linux/vfio.h | 2 -
4 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
Folding in below:
drivers/vfio/group.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/vfio/vfio.h | 15 +++++++++
drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
include/linux/vfio.h | 2 -
4 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
Unfortunately it seems I've talked myself into the answer that we
should maybe just pre-enable cdev by not adding a group reference in
vfio_main. Thanks,
Alex
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/group.c b/drivers/vfio/group.c
index 7fed4233ca23..98621ac082f0 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/group.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/group.c
@@ -154,6 +154,18 @@ static int vfio_group_ioctl_set_container(struct vfio_group *group,
return ret;
}
+static void vfio_device_group_get_kvm_safe(struct vfio_device *device)
+{
+ spin_lock(&device->group->kvm_ref_lock);
+ if (!device->group->kvm)
+ goto unlock;
+
+ _vfio_device_get_kvm_safe(device, device->group->kvm);
+
+unlock:
+ spin_unlock(&device->group->kvm_ref_lock);
+}
+
static int vfio_device_group_open(struct vfio_device *device)
{
int ret;
@@ -173,7 +185,7 @@ static int vfio_device_group_open(struct vfio_device *device)
* the pointer in the device for use by drivers.
*/
if (device->open_count == 0)
- vfio_device_get_kvm_safe(device);
+ vfio_device_group_get_kvm_safe(device);
ret = vfio_device_open(device, device->group->iommufd, device->kvm);
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
index 20d715b0a3a8..24d6cd285945 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
@@ -253,10 +253,11 @@ enum { vfio_noiommu = false };
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM
-void vfio_device_get_kvm_safe(struct vfio_device *device);
+void _vfio_device_get_kvm_safe(struct vfio_device *device, struct kvm *kvm);
void vfio_device_put_kvm(struct vfio_device *device);
#else
-static inline void vfio_device_get_kvm_safe(struct vfio_device *device)
+static inline void _vfio_device_get_kvm_safe(struct vfio_device *device,
+ struct kvm *kvm)
{
}
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
index 4762550e9f42..00d4d5167d6c 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ void vfio_unregister_group_dev(struct vfio_device *device)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfio_unregister_group_dev);
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM
-void vfio_device_get_kvm_safe(struct vfio_device *device)
+void _vfio_device_get_kvm_safe(struct vfio_device *device, struct kvm *kvm)
{
void (*pfn)(struct kvm *kvm);
bool (*fn)(struct kvm *kvm);
@@ -350,32 +350,25 @@ void vfio_device_get_kvm_safe(struct vfio_device *device)
lockdep_assert_held(&device->dev_set->lock);
- spin_lock(&device->group->kvm_ref_lock);
- if (!device->group->kvm)
- goto unlock;
-
pfn = symbol_get(kvm_put_kvm);
if (WARN_ON(!pfn))
- goto unlock;
+ return;
fn = symbol_get(kvm_get_kvm_safe);
if (WARN_ON(!fn)) {
symbol_put(kvm_put_kvm);
- goto unlock;
+ return;
}
ret = fn(device->group->kvm);
symbol_put(kvm_get_kvm_safe);
if (!ret) {
symbol_put(kvm_put_kvm);
- goto unlock;
+ return;
}
device->put_kvm = pfn;
- device->kvm = device->group->kvm;
-
-unlock:
- spin_unlock(&device->group->kvm_ref_lock);
+ device->kvm = kvm;
}
void vfio_device_put_kvm(struct vfio_device *device)
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