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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260706085229.979525-2-seiden@linux.ibm.com> X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.9.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260706_125316_516758_A19E9FAB X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 10.14 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 10:52:01AM +0200, Steffen Eiden wrote: > From: Paolo Bonzini > > VFIO is implicitly taking a reference to the KVM module between > vfio_device_get_kvm_safe and vfio_device_put_kvm, thanks to > symbol_get and symbol_put. I thought we weren't doing this approach? Use the struct file as the kvm handle. I thought I saw patches doing that already? Jason