This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kvm/vfio: Fix potential deadlock on vfio group_lock
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kvm-vfio-fix-potential-deadlock-on-vfio-group_lock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit fd33207736a2552bd0d5f6c62a4f115b1e09da5f
Author: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 20 07:05:28 2023 -0800
kvm/vfio: Fix potential deadlock on vfio group_lock
[ Upstream commit 51cdc8bc120ef6e42f6fb758341f5d91bc955952 ]
Currently it is possible that the final put of a KVM reference comes from
vfio during its device close operation. This occurs while the vfio group
lock is held; however, if the vfio device is still in the kvm device list,
then the following call chain could result in a deadlock:
VFIO holds group->group_lock/group_rwsem
-> kvm_put_kvm
-> kvm_destroy_vm
-> kvm_destroy_devices
-> kvm_vfio_destroy
-> kvm_vfio_file_set_kvm
-> vfio_file_set_kvm
-> try to hold group->group_lock/group_rwsem
The key function is the kvm_destroy_devices() which triggers destroy cb
of kvm_device_ops. It calls back to vfio and try to hold group_lock. So
if this path doesn't call back to vfio, this dead lock would be fixed.
Actually, there is a way for it. KVM provides another point to free the
kvm-vfio device which is the point when the device file descriptor is
closed. This can be achieved by providing the release cb instead of the
destroy cb. Also rename kvm_vfio_destroy() to be kvm_vfio_release().
/*
* Destroy is responsible for freeing dev.
*
* Destroy may be called before or after destructors are called
* on emulated I/O regions, depending on whether a reference is
* held by a vcpu or other kvm component that gets destroyed
* after the emulated I/O.
*/
void (*destroy)(struct kvm_device *dev);
/*
* Release is an alternative method to free the device. It is
* called when the device file descriptor is closed. Once
* release is called, the destroy method will not be called
* anymore as the device is removed from the device list of
* the VM. kvm->lock is held.
*/
void (*release)(struct kvm_device *dev);
Fixes: 421cfe6596f6 ("vfio: remove VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM")
Reported-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230114000351.115444-1-mjrosato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230120150528.471752-1-yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx
[aw: update comment as well, s/destroy/release/]
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/virt/kvm/vfio.c b/virt/kvm/vfio.c
index 495ceabffe88..9584eb57e0ed 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/vfio.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/vfio.c
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static int kvm_vfio_has_attr(struct kvm_device *dev,
return -ENXIO;
}
-static void kvm_vfio_destroy(struct kvm_device *dev)
+static void kvm_vfio_release(struct kvm_device *dev)
{
struct kvm_vfio *kv = dev->private;
struct kvm_vfio_group *kvg, *tmp;
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static void kvm_vfio_destroy(struct kvm_device *dev)
kvm_vfio_update_coherency(dev);
kfree(kv);
- kfree(dev); /* alloc by kvm_ioctl_create_device, free by .destroy */
+ kfree(dev); /* alloc by kvm_ioctl_create_device, free by .release */
}
static int kvm_vfio_create(struct kvm_device *dev, u32 type);
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static int kvm_vfio_create(struct kvm_device *dev, u32 type);
static struct kvm_device_ops kvm_vfio_ops = {
.name = "kvm-vfio",
.create = kvm_vfio_create,
- .destroy = kvm_vfio_destroy,
+ .release = kvm_vfio_release,
.set_attr = kvm_vfio_set_attr,
.has_attr = kvm_vfio_has_attr,
};
