From: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> In function vfio_dma_do_unmap(), we currently prevent process to unmap vfio dma region whose mm_struct is different from the vfio_dma->task. In our virtual machine scenario which is using kvm and qemu, this judgement stops us from liveupgrading our qemu, which uses fork() && exec() to load the new binary but the new process cannot do the VFIO_IOMMU_UNMAP_DMA action during vm exit because of this judgement. This judgement is added in commit 8f0d5bb95f76 ("vfio iommu type1: Add task structure to vfio_dma") for the security reason. But it seems that no other task who has no family relationship with old and new process can get the same vfio_dma struct here for the reason of resource isolation. So this patch delete it. Signed-off-by: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c index c13b9290e357..a8ff00dad834 100644 --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c @@ -1377,12 +1377,6 @@ static int vfio_dma_do_unmap(struct vfio_iommu *iommu, if (!iommu->v2 && iova > dma->iova) break; - /* - * Task with same address space who mapped this iova range is - * allowed to unmap the iova range. - */ - if (dma->task->mm != current->mm) - break; if (invalidate_vaddr) { if (dma->vaddr_invalid) { -- 2.20.1