[Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 v3 0/1] vfio: kvm reference leak on live update

[Andrey Drobyshev]

A live update keeps the passthrough device open while the VM is
re-created. The device holds a reference to the kvm it was opened
with, so the first VM is never destroyed until the device closes. Take
that reference only for the drivers that read device->kvm.

Tested with this patch alone: 30 live updates of a vGPU VM (RTX 6000
Ada SR-IOV VF) under guest DMA load, then 4 live migrations between
two such nodes: one KVM instance after every update, no "duplicate
directory", and no DMA'd buffer differing from the pattern written
into it.

v2 -> v3:

- Patch 2 (debugfs directory) dropped: with patch 1 nothing holds the
  old VM past exec. Traced: the VM fd release and kvm_destroy_vm() run
  at exec, 180 ms before the new QEMU creates its VM, so the directory
  is gone before the name can clash; the test above ran without it

- Patch 1: "in open_device()" and "device->kvm stays NULL without the
  flag" in the comment and the message, how nvidia-vgpu-vfio was
  checked, Assisted-by moved here, blank line before Feature:

v2: http://lore.virtuozzo.com/20261105121733.643754-1-andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com
v1: http://lore.virtuozzo.com/20261030144933.944360-1-andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com

Assisted-by: LLM


Andrey Drobyshev (1):
  vfio: take the kvm reference only for drivers that read device->kvm

 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c  | 1 +
 drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c | 1 +
 drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c  | 1 +
 drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c          | 6 ++++--
 include/linux/vfio.h              | 7 +++++++
 5 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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