[RFC PATCH 1/7] vfio/pci: Ensure VFIO barmap is set up before creating a DMABUF
From: Matt Evans
Date: Thu Feb 26 2026 - 15:28:51 EST
A DMABUF exports access to BAR resources which need to be requested
before the DMABUF is handed out. Usually the resources are requested
when setting up the barmap when the VFIO device fd is mmap()ed, but
there's no guarantee that happens before a DMABUF is created.
Set up the barmap (and so request resources) in the DMABUF-creation
path.
Fixes: 5d74781ebc86c ("vfio/pci: Add dma-buf export support for MMIO regions")
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <mattev@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c
index 4be4a85005cb..46ab64fbeb19 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c
@@ -258,6 +258,17 @@ int vfio_pci_core_feature_dma_buf(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev, u32 flags,
goto err_free_priv;
}
+ /*
+ * Just like the vfio_pci_core_mmap() path, we need to ensure
+ * PCI regions have been requested before returning DMABUFs
+ * that reference them. It's possible to create a DMABUF for
+ * a BAR without the BAR having already been mmap()ed. The
+ * barmap setup requests the regions for us:
+ */
+ ret = vfio_pci_core_setup_barmap(vdev, get_dma_buf.region_index);
+ if (ret)
+ goto err_free_phys;
+
priv->vdev = vdev;
priv->nr_ranges = get_dma_buf.nr_ranges;
priv->size = length;
--
2.47.3