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 of opening
a device multiple times. Given old group path still allows it we store
a vfio_group pointer in struct vfio_device_file to differentiate.
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Terrence Xu <terrence.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Yanting Jiang <yanting.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@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 2751d61689c4..4e6277191eb4 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/group.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/group.c
@@ -245,6 +245,8 @@ static struct file *vfio_device_open_file(struct vfio_device *device)
goto err_out;
}
+ df->group = device->group;
+
ret = vfio_df_group_open(df);
if (ret)
goto err_free;
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
index de17bdd16df5..86e45ba18768 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 4c8b7713dc3d..01db017a0c3b 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
@@ -492,6 +492,13 @@ int vfio_df_open(struct vfio_device_file *df)
lockdep_assert_held(&device->dev_set->lock);
+ /*
+ * Only the group path allows the device to be opened multiple
+ * times. The device 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
