On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 09:44:07AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 05:00:04PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > This allows a mdev driver to opt out of using vfio_mdev.c, instead the
> > driver will provide a 'struct mdev_driver' and register directly with the
> > driver core.
> >
> > Much of mdev_parent_ops becomes unused in this mode:
> > - create()/remove() are done via the mdev_driver probe()/remove()
> > - mdev_attr_groups becomes mdev_driver driver.dev_groups
> > - Wrapper function callbacks are replaced with the same ones from
> > struct vfio_device_ops
> >
> > Following patches convert all the drivers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_driver.c | 17 ++++++++-
> > include/linux/mdev.h | 3 ++
> > 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> <...>
>
> > +/*
> > + * mdev drivers can refuse to bind during probe(), in this case we want to fail
> > + * the creation of the mdev all the way back to sysfs. This is a weird model
> > + * that doesn't fit in the driver core well, nor does it seem to appear any
> > + * place else in the kernel, so use a simple hack.
> > + */
> > +static int mdev_bind_driver(struct mdev_device *mdev)
> > +{
> > + struct mdev_driver *drv = mdev->type->parent->ops->device_driver;
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + if (!drv)
> > + drv = &vfio_mdev_driver;
> > +
> > + while (1) {
> > + device_lock(&mdev->dev);
> > + if (mdev->dev.driver == &drv->driver) {
> > + ret = 0;
> > + goto out_unlock;
> > + }
> > + if (mdev->probe_err) {
> > + ret = mdev->probe_err;
> > + goto out_unlock;
> > + }
> > + device_unlock(&mdev->dev);
> > + ret = device_attach(&mdev->dev);
>
> The sequence above looks sketchy:
> 1. lock
> 2. check for driver
> 3. unlock
> 4. device_attach - it takes internally same lock as in step 1.
>
> Why don't you rely on internal to device_attach() driver check?
This is locking both probe_err and the check that the right driver is
bound. device_attach() doesn't tell you the same information
Jason
