linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 05/11] iommu/sva: Assign a PASID to mm on PASID allocation and free it on mm exit

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Date:   Wed, 9 Feb 2022 19:16:14 -0800
From:   Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc:     "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...hat.com>, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@...en8.de>,
        "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@...nel.org>,
        "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "Lu Baolu" <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Joerg Roedel" <joro@...tes.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        "Ashok Raj" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        "Ravi V Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, "x86" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/11] iommu/sva: Assign a PASID to mm on PASID
 allocation and free it on mm exit

Hi Fenghua,

On Mon,  7 Feb 2022 15:02:48 -0800, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com> wrote:

> @@ -1047,8 +1040,6 @@ struct iommu_sva *intel_svm_bind(struct device
> *dev, struct mm_struct *mm, void }
>  
>  	sva = intel_svm_bind_mm(iommu, dev, mm, flags);
> -	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(sva))
> -		intel_svm_free_pasid(mm);
If bind fails, the PASID has no IOMMU nor CPU context. It should be safe to
free here.

Thanks,

Jacob