linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iommu: Make sysfs robust for non-API groups

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Date:   Wed, 4 May 2022 15:18:37 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc:     will@...nel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com,
        Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu: Make sysfs robust for non-API groups

On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 01:39:58PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Groups created by VFIO backends outside the core IOMMU API should never
> be passed directly into the API itself, however they still expose their
> standard sysfs attributes, so we can still stumble across them that way.
> Take care to consider those cases before jumping into our normal
> assumptions of a fully-initialised core API group.
> 
> Fixes: 3f6634d997db ("iommu: Use right way to retrieve iommu_ops")
> Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>
> Tested-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
> ---
> 
> /me has a vested interest in not going backwards on dev_iommu_ops() :)
> 
>  drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks.