Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] vfio-pci: Block user access to disabled device MMIO

[Qian Cai]

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 01:17:09PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> v3:
> 
> The memory_lock semaphore is only held in the MSI-X path for callouts
> to functions that may access MSI-X MMIO space of the device, this
> should resolve the circular locking dependency reported by Qian
> (re-testing very much appreciated).  I've also incorporated the
> pci_map_rom() and pci_unmap_rom() calls under the memory_lock.  Commit
> 0cfd027be1d6 ("vfio_pci: Enable memory accesses before calling
> pci_map_rom") made sure memory was enabled on the info path, but did
> not provide locking to protect that state.  The r/w path of the BAR
> access is expanded to include ROM mapping/unmapping.  Unless there
> are objections, I'll plan to drop v2 from my next branch and replace
> it with this.  Thanks,

FYI, the lockdep warning is gone.