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[34.105.23.239]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 98e67ed59e1d1-35c03172a8asm3524836a91.15.2026.03.24.10.05.59 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:05:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:05:55 +0000 From: David Matlack To: Yi Liu Cc: Alex Williamson , Bjorn Helgaas , Adithya Jayachandran , Alexander Graf , Alex Mastro , Andrew Morton , Ankit Agrawal , Arnd Bergmann , Askar Safin , "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" , Chris Li , Dapeng Mi , David Rientjes , Feng Tang , Jacob Pan , Jason Gunthorpe , Jason Gunthorpe , Jonathan Corbet , Josh Hilke , Kees Cook , Kevin Tian , kexec@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Leon Romanovsky , Leon Romanovsky , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Li RongQing , Lukas Wunner , Marco Elver , =?utf-8?Q?Micha=C5=82?= Winiarski , Mike Rapoport , Parav Pandit , Pasha Tatashin , "Paul E. McKenney" , Pawan Gupta , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Pranjal Shrivastava , Pratyush Yadav , Raghavendra Rao Ananta , Randy Dunlap , Rodrigo Vivi , Saeed Mahameed , Samiullah Khawaja , Shuah Khan , Vipin Sharma , Vivek Kasireddy , William Tu , Zhu Yanjun Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/24] vfio/pci: Retrieve preserved device files after Live Update Message-ID: References: <20260323235817.1960573-1-dmatlack@google.com> <20260323235817.1960573-9-dmatlack@google.com> <815947ee-2603-47f0-9b03-f523601eae86@intel.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <815947ee-2603-47f0-9b03-f523601eae86@intel.com> On 2026-03-24 09:08 PM, Yi Liu wrote: > On 3/24/26 07:58, David Matlack wrote: > > From: Vipin Sharma > > > > Enable userspace to retrieve preserved VFIO device files from VFIO after > > a Live Update by implementing the retrieve() and finish() file handler > > callbacks. > > > > Use an anonymous inode when creating the file, since the retrieved > > device file is not opened through any particular cdev inode, and the > > cdev inode does not matter in practice. > > do we have a list of struct file fields that do not matter? My understanding is that VFIO only cares about these fields in struct file: - private_data: Pointer to struct vfio_device_file - f_op: Pointer to vfio_device_fops - f_mapping: Pointer to vfio_device->inode->i_mapping This is based on cross-referencing VFIO_GROUP_GET_DEVICE_FD (which uses an anonymous inode) and the cdev code. > > +err_free_device_file: > > + kvfree(df); > > any reason to use kvfree()? No this can be kfree(). Will fix in v4.