If the affected device is not opened by any user, it is not necessary to
check its ownership as it will not be opened by any user if a user is hot
resetting a device within this dev_set.
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l....@intel.com>
---
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
index 65bbef562268..f13b093557a9 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
@@ -2429,10 +2429,23 @@ static int vfio_pci_dev_set_hot_reset(struct
vfio_device_set *dev_set,
list_for_each_entry(cur_vma, &dev_set->device_list, vdev.dev_set_list) {
/*
- * Test whether all the affected devices are contained by the
+ * Test whether all the affected devices can be reset by the
+ * user. The affected devices may already been opened or not
+ * yet.
+ *
+ * For the devices not opened yet, user can reset them as it
+ * reason is that the hot reset is done under the protection
+ * of the dev_set->lock, and device open is also under this
+ * lock. During the hot reset, such devices can not be opened
+ * by other users.
+ *
+ * For the devices that have been opened, needs to check the
+ * ownership. If the user provides a set of group fds, test
+ * whether all the opened affected devices are contained by the
* set of groups provided by the user.
*/
- if (!vfio_dev_in_groups(cur_vma, groups)) {
+ if (cur_vma->vdev.open_count &&
+ !vfio_dev_in_groups(cur_vma, groups)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto err_undo;
}
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
index 0552e8dcf0cb..f96e5689cffc 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
@@ -673,6 +673,14 @@ struct vfio_pci_hot_reset_info {
* VFIO_DEVICE_PCI_HOT_RESET - _IOW(VFIO_TYPE, VFIO_BASE + 13,
* struct vfio_pci_hot_reset)
*
+ * Userspace requests hot reset for the devices it uses. Due to the
+ * underlying topology, multiple devices can be affected in the reset
+ * while some might be opened by another user. To avoid interference
+ * the calling user must ensure all affected devices, if opened, are
+ * owned by itself.
+ *
+ * The ownership is proved by an array of group fds.
+ *
* Return: 0 on success, -errno on failure.
*/
struct vfio_pci_hot_reset {
--
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