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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 12:09:32 -0400
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To: Nikhil V <quic_nprakash@...cinc.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@...cinc.com>,
	iommu@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] iommu: Avoid races around default domain allocations

On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 08:47:42PM +0530, Nikhil V wrote:

> Also, as Jason pointed out, this fix would not allow changing the
> default domain for an iommu group. We didn't have any usecase for
> changing default domain, hence couldn't see any issues with the fix
> proposed. So, we would have to rework the patch for it to be
> upstream ready. Any suggestions for this would be really helpful and
> appreciated. Thanks!!!

I think you can lift and duplicate the check into the callers and that
way restrict it only to the probe paths.

Jason

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