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[ Upstream commit51cdc8bc12] 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:421cfe6596("vfio: remove VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM") Reported-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230114000351.115444-1-mjrosato@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230120150528.471752-1-yi.l.liu@intel.com [aw: update comment as well, s/destroy/release/] Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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