Patch "vfio: New external user group/file match" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    vfio: New external user group/file match

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     vfio-new-external-user-group-file-match.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 5d6dee80a1e94cc284d03e06d930e60e8d3ecf7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:50:05 -0600
Subject: vfio: New external user group/file match

From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

commit 5d6dee80a1e94cc284d03e06d930e60e8d3ecf7d upstream.

At the point where the kvm-vfio pseudo device wants to release its
vfio group reference, we can't always acquire a new reference to make
that happen.  The group can be in a state where we wouldn't allow a
new reference to be added.  This new helper function allows a caller
to match a file to a group to facilitate this.  Given a file and
group, report if they match.  Thus the caller needs to already have a
group reference to match to the file.  This allows the deletion of a
group without acquiring a new reference.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/vfio/vfio.c  |    9 +++++++++
 include/linux/vfio.h |    2 ++
 virt/kvm/vfio.c      |   27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
@@ -1776,6 +1776,15 @@ void vfio_group_put_external_user(struct
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfio_group_put_external_user);
 
+bool vfio_external_group_match_file(struct vfio_group *test_group,
+				    struct file *filep)
+{
+	struct vfio_group *group = filep->private_data;
+
+	return (filep->f_op == &vfio_group_fops) && (group == test_group);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfio_external_group_match_file);
+
 int vfio_external_user_iommu_id(struct vfio_group *group)
 {
 	return iommu_group_id(group->iommu_group);
--- a/include/linux/vfio.h
+++ b/include/linux/vfio.h
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ extern void vfio_unregister_iommu_driver
  */
 extern struct vfio_group *vfio_group_get_external_user(struct file *filep);
 extern void vfio_group_put_external_user(struct vfio_group *group);
+extern bool vfio_external_group_match_file(struct vfio_group *group,
+					   struct file *filep);
 extern int vfio_external_user_iommu_id(struct vfio_group *group);
 extern long vfio_external_check_extension(struct vfio_group *group,
 					  unsigned long arg);
--- a/virt/kvm/vfio.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/vfio.c
@@ -51,6 +51,22 @@ static struct vfio_group *kvm_vfio_group
 	return vfio_group;
 }
 
+static bool kvm_vfio_external_group_match_file(struct vfio_group *group,
+					       struct file *filep)
+{
+	bool ret, (*fn)(struct vfio_group *, struct file *);
+
+	fn = symbol_get(vfio_external_group_match_file);
+	if (!fn)
+		return false;
+
+	ret = fn(group, filep);
+
+	symbol_put(vfio_external_group_match_file);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static void kvm_vfio_group_put_external_user(struct vfio_group *vfio_group)
 {
 	void (*fn)(struct vfio_group *);
@@ -231,18 +247,13 @@ static int kvm_vfio_set_group(struct kvm
 		if (!f.file)
 			return -EBADF;
 
-		vfio_group = kvm_vfio_group_get_external_user(f.file);
-		fdput(f);
-
-		if (IS_ERR(vfio_group))
-			return PTR_ERR(vfio_group);
-
 		ret = -ENOENT;
 
 		mutex_lock(&kv->lock);
 
 		list_for_each_entry(kvg, &kv->group_list, node) {
-			if (kvg->vfio_group != vfio_group)
+			if (!kvm_vfio_external_group_match_file(kvg->vfio_group,
+								f.file))
 				continue;
 
 			list_del(&kvg->node);
@@ -260,7 +271,7 @@ static int kvm_vfio_set_group(struct kvm
 
 		mutex_unlock(&kv->lock);
 
-		kvm_vfio_group_put_external_user(vfio_group);
+		fdput(f);
 
 		kvm_vfio_update_coherency(dev);
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alex.williamson@redhat.com are

queue-4.12/vfio-new-external-user-group-file-match.patch
queue-4.12/vfio-remove-unnecessary-uses-of-vfio_container.group_lock.patch
queue-4.12/vfio-fix-group-release-deadlock.patch