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Commit b76c0eed authored by Jason Gunthorpe's avatar Jason Gunthorpe Committed by Alex Williamson
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vfio: Simplify the life cycle of the group FD



Once userspace opens a group FD it is prevented from opening another
instance of that same group FD until all the prior group FDs and users of
the container are done.

The first is done trivially by checking the group->opened during group FD
open.

However, things get a little weird if userspace creates a device FD and
then closes the group FD. The group FD still cannot be re-opened, but this
time it is because the group->container is still set and container_users
is elevated by the device FD.

Due to this mismatched lifecycle we have the
vfio_group_try_dissolve_container() which tries to auto-free a container
after the group FD is closed but the device FD remains open.

Instead have the device FD hold onto a reference to the single group
FD. This directly prevents vfio_group_fops_release() from being called
when any device FD exists and makes the lifecycle model more
understandable.

vfio_group_try_dissolve_container() is removed as the only place a
container is auto-deleted is during vfio_group_fops_release(). At this
point the container_users is either 1 or 0 since all device FDs must be
closed.

Change group->opened to group->opened_file which points to the single
struct file * that is open for the group. If the group->open_file is
NULL then group->container == NULL.

If all device FDs have closed then the group's notifier list must be
empty.

Reviewed-by: default avatarKevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: default avatarNicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMatthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5-v2-d035a1842d81+1bf-vfio_group_locking_jgg@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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