Re: [PATCH 0/4] KVM: VFIO: use mutex guards to simplify control flow

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:20:38 +0100
> Carlos López <clopez@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > Replace several uses of mutex_lock() / mutex_unlock() pairs with mutex
> > guards, allowing removal of all gotos in virt/kvm/vfio.c.
> > 
> > In this series I also include a small refactor that allows greatly
> > simplifying kvm_vfio_file_del(), and skipping an unnecessary call to
> > kvm_vfio_update_coherency() if the list of files managed by the KVM
> > VFIO device does not change.
> > 
> > Carlos López (4):
> >   KVM: VFIO: clean up control flow in kvm_vfio_file_add()
> >   KVM: VFIO: use mutex guard in kvm_vfio_file_set_spapr_tce()
> >   KVM: VFIO: deduplicate file release logic
> >   KVM: VFIO: update coherency only if file was deleted
> > 
> >  virt/kvm/vfio.c | 97 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
> > 
> > 
> > base-commit: d2ea4ff1ce50787a98a3900b3fb1636f3620b7cf
> 
> Series looks good to me.  This is nicely isolated, so I assume Paolo
> will take it through the KVM tree, but I can also take it through vfio
> if preferred.

I'll grab it for 7.2, probably around 7.1-rc2.