Patch "vfio: Rework group release notifier warning" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    vfio: Rework group release notifier warning

to the 4.10-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-rework-group-release-notifier-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 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 65b1adebfe43c642dfe3b109edb5d992db5fbe72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:19:09 -0600
Subject: vfio: Rework group release notifier warning

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

commit 65b1adebfe43c642dfe3b109edb5d992db5fbe72 upstream.

The intent of the original warning is make sure that the mdev vendor
driver has removed any group notifiers at the point where the group
is closed by the user.  Theoretically this would be through an
orderly shutdown where any devices are release prior to the group
release.  We can't always count on an orderly shutdown, the user can
close the group before the notifier can be removed or the user task
might be killed.  We'd like to add this sanity test when the group is
idle and the only references are from the devices within the group
themselves, but we don't have a good way to do that.  Instead check
both when the group itself is removed and when the group is opened.
A bit later than we'd prefer, but better than the current over
aggressive approach.

Fixes: ccd46dbae77d ("vfio: support notifier chain in vfio_group")
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Jike Song <jike.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/vfio/vfio.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
@@ -403,6 +403,7 @@ static void vfio_group_release(struct kr
 	struct iommu_group *iommu_group = group->iommu_group;
 
 	WARN_ON(!list_empty(&group->device_list));
+	WARN_ON(group->notifier.head);
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(unbound, tmp,
 				 &group->unbound_list, unbound_next) {
@@ -1573,6 +1574,10 @@ static int vfio_group_fops_open(struct i
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
 
+	/* Warn if previous user didn't cleanup and re-init to drop them */
+	if (WARN_ON(group->notifier.head))
+		BLOCKING_INIT_NOTIFIER_HEAD(&group->notifier);
+
 	filep->private_data = group;
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1584,9 +1589,6 @@ static int vfio_group_fops_release(struc
 
 	filep->private_data = NULL;
 
-	/* Any user didn't unregister? */
-	WARN_ON(group->notifier.head);
-
 	vfio_group_try_dissolve_container(group);
 
 	atomic_dec(&group->opened);


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

queue-4.10/vfio-rework-group-release-notifier-warning.patch