Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: async kvm_destroy_vm for vfio devices

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 03:10:36PM -0500, Matthew Rosato wrote:
> 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:
> 
> kvm_put_kvm
>  -> kvm_destroy_vm
>   -> kvm_destroy_devices
>    -> kvm_vfio_destroy
>     -> kvm_vfio_file_set_kvm
>      -> vfio_file_set_kvm
>       -> group->group_lock/group_rwsem
> 
> Avoid this scenario by adding kvm_put_kvm_async which will perform the
> kvm_destroy_vm asynchronously if the refcount reaches 0.
> 
> Fixes: 421cfe6596f6 ("vfio: remove VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM")
> Reported-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c  |  6 +++++-
>  drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c |  7 ++++++-
>  include/linux/kvm_host.h          |  3 +++
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c               | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Why two patches?

It looks OK to me

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Jason