[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v14 16/26] vfio: Move vfio_device_group_unregister() to be the first operation in unregister

Yi Liu yi.l.liu at intel.com
Tue Jul 11 02:59:18 UTC 2023


This avoids endless vfio_device refcount increment by userspace, which
would keep blocking the vfio_unregister_group_dev().

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.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>
Tested-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi at huawei.com>
Tested-by: Terrence Xu <terrence.xu at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu at intel.com>
---
 drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
index c71c0d1a079f..6d45caa1f9a0 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
@@ -332,6 +332,12 @@ void vfio_unregister_group_dev(struct vfio_device *device)
 	bool interrupted = false;
 	long rc;
 
+	/*
+	 * Prevent new device opened by userspace via the
+	 * VFIO_GROUP_GET_DEVICE_FD in the group path.
+	 */
+	vfio_device_group_unregister(device);
+
 	vfio_device_put_registration(device);
 	rc = try_wait_for_completion(&device->comp);
 	while (rc <= 0) {
@@ -355,8 +361,6 @@ void vfio_unregister_group_dev(struct vfio_device *device)
 		}
 	}
 
-	vfio_device_group_unregister(device);
-
 	/* Balances device_add in register path */
 	device_del(&device->device);
 
-- 
2.34.1



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