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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, cohuck@redhat.com, farman@linux.ibm.com,
	pmorel@linux.ibm.com, borntraeger@linux.ibm.com,
	frankja@linux.ibm.com, imbrenda@linux.ibm.com, david@redhat.com,
	akrowiak@linux.ibm.com, jjherne@linux.ibm.com,
	pasic@linux.ibm.com, zhenyuw@linux.intel.com,
	zhi.a.wang@intel.com, seanjc@google.com,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfio: fix potential deadlock on vfio group lock
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:50:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y8FvtS3uOFUnSxss@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bce7912a-f904-b5a3-d234-c3e2c42d9e54@linux.ibm.com>

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 04:51:36PM -0500, Matthew Rosato wrote:

> Yep, thanks.  I will surround this bit of code with
> 
> mutex_lock(&device->dev_set->lock);
> ..
> mutex_unlock(&device->dev_set->lock);

Don't do it like that, copy the kvm out of the struct device to the
stack and NULL it. Then do the put without holding any locks.

Jason

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-13 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-12 20:38 [PATCH v2] vfio: fix potential deadlock on vfio group lock Matthew Rosato
2023-01-12 21:05 ` Alex Williamson
2023-01-12 21:51   ` Matthew Rosato
2023-01-12 23:29     ` Sean Christopherson
2023-01-13  0:56       ` Alex Williamson
2023-01-13  2:05         ` Sean Christopherson
2023-01-13 14:49           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-13 14:50     ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2023-01-13 13:04 ` Matthew Rosato

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