[RFC] vfio: remove useless judgement

From: lizhe . 67
Date: Thu Jun 23 2022 - 07:56:22 EST


From: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

In function vfio_dma_do_unmap(), we currently prevent process to unmap
vfio dma region whose mm_struct is different from the vfio_dma->task.
In our virtual machine scenario which is using kvm and qemu, this
judgement stops us from liveupgrading our qemu, which uses fork() &&
exec() to load the new binary but the new process cannot do the
VFIO_IOMMU_UNMAP_DMA action during vm exit because of this judgement.

This judgement is added in commit 8f0d5bb95f76 ("vfio iommu type1: Add
task structure to vfio_dma") for the security reason. But it seems that
no other task who has no family relationship with old and new process
can get the same vfio_dma struct here for the reason of resource
isolation. So this patch delete it.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index c13b9290e357..a8ff00dad834 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -1377,12 +1377,6 @@ static int vfio_dma_do_unmap(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,

if (!iommu->v2 && iova > dma->iova)
break;
- /*
- * Task with same address space who mapped this iova range is
- * allowed to unmap the iova range.
- */
- if (dma->task->mm != current->mm)
- break;

if (invalidate_vaddr) {
if (dma->vaddr_invalid) {
--
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