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Alex WilliamsonandGreg Kroah-Hartman 1dd99b8f4e vfio/mlx5: Fix racy bitfields and tighten struct layout
[ Upstream commit f2365a63b0 ]

Bitfield operations are not atomic, they use a read-modify-write
pattern, therefore we should be careful not to pack bitfields that
can be concurrently updated into the same storage unit.

This split takes a binary approach: flags that are only modified
pre/post open/close remain bitfields, flags modified from user
action, including actions that reach across to another device (ex.
reset) use dedicated storage units.

Note mlx5_vhca_page_tracker.status is relocated to fill the alignment
hole this split exposes.

Bitfield justifications:

  migrate_cap: written only in mlx5vf_cmd_set_migratable() at probe
  chunk_mode: written only in mlx5vf_cmd_set_migratable() at probe
  mig_state_cap: written only in mlx5vf_cmd_set_migratable() at probe

Dedicated storage units:

  mdev_detach: written in the VF attach/detach event notifier
               mlx5fv_vf_event() at runtime
  log_active: written in mlx5vf_start_page_tracker()/
              mlx5vf_stop_page_tracker() during runtime dirty tracking
  deferred_reset: written in mlx5vf_state_mutex_unlock()/
                  mlx5vf_pci_aer_reset_done() during runtime reset handling
  is_err: set by tracker error handling and dirty-log polling at runtime
  object_changed: set by tracker event handling and cleared by dirty-log
                  polling at runtime

Fixes: 61a2f1460f ("vfio/mlx5: Manage the VF attach/detach callback from the PF")
Fixes: 79c3cf2799 ("vfio/mlx5: Init QP based resources for dirty tracking")
Fixes: f886473071 ("vfio/mlx5: Add support for tracker object change event")
Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260615191241.688297-5-alex.williamson@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2026-07-24 15:55:12 +02:00
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