Re: [PATCH v6 9/9] vfio/pci: Permanently revoke a DMABUF on request

From: Jason Gunthorpe

Date: Tue Sep 22 2026 - 08:53:30 EST


On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 04:09:18PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> >> I would avoid that and just re-create the DMA-buf fd from
> >> scratch. The extra overhead is negligible and one way state
> >> transmissions are usually much easier to handle.
> >
> > Yeah, maybe we should have done that. Might be too late now.
>
> It's already uAPI?

Yeah, but Matt is making some changes here so maybe new stuff can
avoid this. I'm not sure.

Jason