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authorYi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>2023-01-20 07:05:28 -0800
committerAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>2023-01-20 08:50:05 -0700
commit51cdc8bc120ef6e42f6fb758341f5d91bc955952 (patch)
tree81809333b0e38ff1ae14bf0b011e92eeb2ef1e06 /virt
parent895c0747f726bb50c9b7a805613a61d1b6f9fa06 (diff)
kvm/vfio: Fix potential deadlock on vfio group_lock
Currently it is possible that the final put of a KVM reference comes from vfio during its device close operation. This occurs while the vfio group lock is held; however, if the vfio device is still in the kvm device list, then the following call chain could result in a deadlock: VFIO holds group->group_lock/group_rwsem -> kvm_put_kvm -> kvm_destroy_vm -> kvm_destroy_devices -> kvm_vfio_destroy -> kvm_vfio_file_set_kvm -> vfio_file_set_kvm -> try to hold group->group_lock/group_rwsem The key function is the kvm_destroy_devices() which triggers destroy cb of kvm_device_ops. It calls back to vfio and try to hold group_lock. So if this path doesn't call back to vfio, this dead lock would be fixed. Actually, there is a way for it. KVM provides another point to free the kvm-vfio device which is the point when the device file descriptor is closed. This can be achieved by providing the release cb instead of the destroy cb. Also rename kvm_vfio_destroy() to be kvm_vfio_release(). /* * Destroy is responsible for freeing dev. * * Destroy may be called before or after destructors are called * on emulated I/O regions, depending on whether a reference is * held by a vcpu or other kvm component that gets destroyed * after the emulated I/O. */ void (*destroy)(struct kvm_device *dev); /* * Release is an alternative method to free the device. It is * called when the device file descriptor is closed. Once * release is called, the destroy method will not be called * anymore as the device is removed from the device list of * the VM. kvm->lock is held. */ void (*release)(struct kvm_device *dev); Fixes: 421cfe6596f6 ("vfio: remove VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM") Reported-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230114000351.115444-1-mjrosato@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230120150528.471752-1-yi.l.liu@intel.com [aw: update comment as well, s/destroy/release/] Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/vfio.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/vfio.c b/virt/kvm/vfio.c
index 495ceabffe88..9584eb57e0ed 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/vfio.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/vfio.c
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static int kvm_vfio_has_attr(struct kvm_device *dev,
return -ENXIO;
}
-static void kvm_vfio_destroy(struct kvm_device *dev)
+static void kvm_vfio_release(struct kvm_device *dev)
{
struct kvm_vfio *kv = dev->private;
struct kvm_vfio_group *kvg, *tmp;
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static void kvm_vfio_destroy(struct kvm_device *dev)
kvm_vfio_update_coherency(dev);
kfree(kv);
- kfree(dev); /* alloc by kvm_ioctl_create_device, free by .destroy */
+ kfree(dev); /* alloc by kvm_ioctl_create_device, free by .release */
}
static int kvm_vfio_create(struct kvm_device *dev, u32 type);
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static int kvm_vfio_create(struct kvm_device *dev, u32 type);
static struct kvm_device_ops kvm_vfio_ops = {
.name = "kvm-vfio",
.create = kvm_vfio_create,
- .destroy = kvm_vfio_destroy,
+ .release = kvm_vfio_release,
.set_attr = kvm_vfio_set_attr,
.has_attr = kvm_vfio_has_attr,
};