VFIO group has historically allowed multi-open of the device FD. This
was made secure because the "open" was executed via an ioctl to the
group FD which is itself only single open.
However, no known use of multiple device FDs today. It is kind of a
strange thing to do because new device FDs can naturally be created
via dup().
When we implement the new device uAPI (only used in cdev path) there is
no natural way to allow the device itself from being multi-opened in a
secure manner. Without the group FD we cannot prove the security context
of the opener.
Thus, when moving to the new uAPI we block the ability to multi-open
the device. Old group path still allows it.
vfio_device_open() needs to sustain both the legacy behavior i.e. multi-open
in the group path and the new behavior i.e. single-open in the cdev path.
This mixture leads to the introduction of a new is_cdev_device flag in struct
vfio_device_file.
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vfio/vfio.h | 2 ++
drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c | 10 +++++++++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
index bf84cf36eac7..68be0e8279c7 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ struct vfio_container;
struct vfio_device_file {
struct vfio_device *device;
+ bool is_cdev_device;
+
bool access_granted;
spinlock_t kvm_ref_lock; /* protect kvm field */
struct kvm *kvm;
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
index 484f89eef7e5..925127a38a3a 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
@@ -472,6 +472,13 @@ int vfio_device_open(struct vfio_device_file *df,
lockdep_assert_held(&device->dev_set->lock);
+ /*
+ * Device cdev path cannot support multiple device open since
+ * it doesn't have a secure way for it.
+ */
+ if (device->open_count != 0 && df->is_cdev_device)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
device->open_count++;
if (device->open_count == 1) {
ret = vfio_device_first_open(df, dev_id, pt_id);
@@ -535,7 +542,8 @@ static int vfio_device_fops_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
struct vfio_device_file *df = filep->private_data;
struct vfio_device *device = df->device;
- vfio_device_group_close(df);
+ if (!df->is_cdev_device)
+ vfio_device_group_close(df);
vfio_device_put_registration(device);
--
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