[RFC v2 PATCH 07/10] vfio/pci: Support mmap() of a VFIO DMABUF
From: Matt Evans
Date: Thu Mar 12 2026 - 14:47:36 EST
A VFIO DMABUF can export a subset of a BAR to userspace by fd; add
support for mmap() of this fd. This provides another route for a
process to map BARs, except one where the process can only map a specific
subset of a BAR represented by the exported DMABUF.
mmap() support enables userspace driver designs that safely delegate
access to BAR sub-ranges to other client processes by sharing a DMABUF
fd, without having to share the (omnipotent) VFIO device fd with them.
Since the main VFIO BAR mmap() path is now DMABUF-aware, this path
reuses the existing vm_ops.
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <mattev@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c | 2 +-
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_priv.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
index 9e9ad97c2f7f..4f411a0b980c 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
@@ -1712,7 +1712,7 @@ static vm_fault_t vfio_pci_mmap_page_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
return vfio_pci_mmap_huge_fault(vmf, 0);
}
-static const struct vm_operations_struct vfio_pci_mmap_ops = {
+const struct vm_operations_struct vfio_pci_mmap_ops = {
.fault = vfio_pci_mmap_page_fault,
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP
.huge_fault = vfio_pci_mmap_huge_fault,
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c
index 197f50365ee1..ab665db66904 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c
@@ -26,6 +26,33 @@ static int vfio_pci_dma_buf_attach(struct dma_buf *dmabuf,
return 0;
}
+
+static int vfio_pci_dma_buf_mmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ struct vfio_pci_dma_buf *priv = dmabuf->priv;
+ u64 req_len, req_start;
+
+ if (priv->revoked)
+ return -ENODEV;
+ if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) == 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ req_len = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
+ req_start = vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
+ if (req_start + req_len > priv->size)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
+ vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_decrypted(vma->vm_page_prot);
+
+ /* See comments in vfio_pci_core_mmap() re VM_ALLOW_ANY_UNCACHED. */
+ vm_flags_set(vma, VM_ALLOW_ANY_UNCACHED | VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP |
+ VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP);
+ vma->vm_private_data = priv;
+ vma->vm_ops = &vfio_pci_mmap_ops;
+
+ return 0;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_VFIO_PCI_DMABUF */
static void vfio_pci_dma_buf_done(struct kref *kref)
@@ -93,6 +120,7 @@ static void vfio_pci_dma_buf_release(struct dma_buf *dmabuf)
static const struct dma_buf_ops vfio_pci_dmabuf_ops = {
#ifdef CONFIG_VFIO_PCI_DMABUF
.attach = vfio_pci_dma_buf_attach,
+ .mmap = vfio_pci_dma_buf_mmap,
#endif
.map_dma_buf = vfio_pci_dma_buf_map,
.unmap_dma_buf = vfio_pci_dma_buf_unmap,
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_priv.h b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_priv.h
index e201c96bbb14..b16a8d22563c 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_priv.h
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_priv.h
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ struct vfio_pci_dma_buf {
u8 revoked : 1;
};
+extern const struct vm_operations_struct vfio_pci_mmap_ops;
+
bool vfio_pci_intx_mask(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev);
void vfio_pci_intx_unmask(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev);
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