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Commit e0e29bdb authored by Jason Gunthorpe's avatar Jason Gunthorpe Committed by Alex Williamson
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vfio: Fully lock struct vfio_group::container



This is necessary to avoid various user triggerable races, for instance
racing SET_CONTAINER/UNSET_CONTAINER:

                                  ioctl(VFIO_GROUP_SET_CONTAINER)
ioctl(VFIO_GROUP_UNSET_CONTAINER)
 vfio_group_unset_container
    int users = atomic_cmpxchg(&group->container_users, 1, 0);
    // users == 1 container_users == 0
    __vfio_group_unset_container(group);
      container = group->container;
                                    vfio_group_set_container()
	                              if (!atomic_read(&group->container_users))
				        down_write(&container->group_lock);
				        group->container = container;
				        up_write(&container->group_lock);

      down_write(&container->group_lock);
      group->container = NULL;
      up_write(&container->group_lock);
      vfio_container_put(container);
      /* woops we lost/leaked the new container  */

This can then go on to NULL pointer deref since container == 0 and
container_users == 1.

Wrap all touches of container, except those on a performance path with a
known open device, with the group_rwsem.

The only user of vfio_group_add_container_user() holds the user count for
a simple operation, change it to just hold the group_lock over the
operation and delete vfio_group_add_container_user(). Containers now only
gain a user when a device FD is opened.

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/4-v2-d035a1842d81+1bf-vfio_group_locking_jgg@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
parent 805bb6c1
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