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 storing a vfio_group pointer in struct vfio_device_file.
Only the group path would set it, cdev path never sets it.
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vfio/group.c | 2 ++
drivers/vfio/vfio.h | 2 ++
drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/group.c b/drivers/vfio/group.c
index 63aafd59278d..f067a6a7bbd2 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/group.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/group.c
@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ static struct file *vfio_device_open_file(struct vfio_device *device)
goto err_out;
}
+ df->group = device->group;
+
ret = vfio_device_group_open(df);
if (ret)
goto err_free;
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
index e1b8763e443e..11397cc95e0b 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;
+ struct vfio_group *group;
+
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 cf9994a65df3..aa31aae33407 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
@@ -477,6 +477,13 @@ int vfio_device_open(struct vfio_device_file *df)
lockdep_assert_held(&device->dev_set->lock);
+ /*
+ * Only group path supports multiple device open. cdev path
+ * doesn't have a secure way for it.
+ */
+ if (device->open_count != 0 && !df->group)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
device->open_count++;
if (device->open_count == 1) {
ret = vfio_device_first_open(df);
--
2.34.1
