vfio: Delete vfio_get/put_group from vfio_iommu_group_notifier()
iommu_group_register_notifier()/iommu_group_unregister_notifier() are
built using a blocking_notifier_chain which integrates a rwsem. The
notifier function cannot be running outside its registration.
When considering how the notifier function interacts with create/destroy
of the group there are two fringe cases, the notifier starts before
list_add(&vfio.group_list) and the notifier runs after the kref
becomes 0.
Prior to vfio_create_group() unlocking and returning we have
container_users == 0
device_list == empty
And this cannot change until the mutex is unlocked.
After the kref goes to zero we must also have
container_users == 0
device_list == empty
Both are required because they are balanced operations and a 0 kref means
some caller became unbalanced. Add the missing assertion that
container_users must be zero as well.
These two facts are important because when checking each operation we see:
- IOMMU_GROUP_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE
Empty device_list avoids the WARN_ON in vfio_group_nb_add_dev()
0 container_users ends the call
- IOMMU_GROUP_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER
0 container_users ends the call
Finally, we have IOMMU_GROUP_NOTIFY_UNBOUND_DRIVER, which only deletes
items from the unbound list. During creation this list is empty, during
kref == 0 nothing can read this list, and it will be freed soon.
Since the vfio_group_release() doesn't hold the appropriate lock to
manipulate the unbound_list and could race with the notifier, move the
cleanup to directly before the kfree.
This allows deleting all of the deferred group put code.
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1-v3-2fdfe4ca2cc6+18c-vfio_group_cdev_jgg@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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