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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'vfio-v4.13-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio</title>
<updated>2017-07-13T19:23:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-13T19:23:54+00:00</published>
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Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:

 - Include Intel XXV710 in INTx workaround (Alex Williamson)

 - Make use of ERR_CAST() for error return (Dan Carpenter)

 - Fix vfio_group release deadlock from iommu notifier (Alex Williamson)

 - Unset KVM-VFIO attributes only on group match (Alex Williamson)

 - Fix release path group/file matching with KVM-VFIO (Alex Williamson)

 - Remove unnecessary lock uses triggering lockdep splat (Alex Williamson)

* tag 'vfio-v4.13-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio:
  vfio: Remove unnecessary uses of vfio_container.group_lock
  vfio: New external user group/file match
  kvm-vfio: Decouple only when we match a group
  vfio: Fix group release deadlock
  vfio: Use ERR_CAST() instead of open coding it
  vfio/pci: Add Intel XXV710 to hidden INTx devices
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Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:

 - Include Intel XXV710 in INTx workaround (Alex Williamson)

 - Make use of ERR_CAST() for error return (Dan Carpenter)

 - Fix vfio_group release deadlock from iommu notifier (Alex Williamson)

 - Unset KVM-VFIO attributes only on group match (Alex Williamson)

 - Fix release path group/file matching with KVM-VFIO (Alex Williamson)

 - Remove unnecessary lock uses triggering lockdep splat (Alex Williamson)

* tag 'vfio-v4.13-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio:
  vfio: Remove unnecessary uses of vfio_container.group_lock
  vfio: New external user group/file match
  kvm-vfio: Decouple only when we match a group
  vfio: Fix group release deadlock
  vfio: Use ERR_CAST() instead of open coding it
  vfio/pci: Add Intel XXV710 to hidden INTx devices
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<entry>
<title>vfio: Remove unnecessary uses of vfio_container.group_lock</title>
<updated>2017-07-07T21:37:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Williamson</name>
<email>alex.williamson@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-07T21:37:38+00:00</published>
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The original intent of vfio_container.group_lock is to protect
vfio_container.group_list, however over time it's become a crutch to
prevent changes in container composition any time we call into the
iommu driver backend.  This introduces problems when we start to have
more complex interactions, for example when a user's DMA unmap request
triggers a notification to an mdev vendor driver, who responds by
attempting to unpin mappings within that request, re-entering the
iommu backend.  We incorrectly assume that the use of read-locks here
allow for this nested locking behavior, but a poorly timed write-lock
could in fact trigger a deadlock.

The current use of group_lock seems to fall into the trap of locking
code, not data.  Correct that by removing uses of group_lock that are
not directly related to group_list.  Note that the vfio type1 iommu
backend has its own mutex, vfio_iommu.lock, which it uses to protect
itself for each of these interfaces anyway.  The group_lock appears to
be a redundancy for these interfaces and type1 even goes so far as to
release its mutex to allow for exactly the re-entrant code path above.

Reported-by: Chuanxiao Dong &lt;chuanxiao.dong@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.10+
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The original intent of vfio_container.group_lock is to protect
vfio_container.group_list, however over time it's become a crutch to
prevent changes in container composition any time we call into the
iommu driver backend.  This introduces problems when we start to have
more complex interactions, for example when a user's DMA unmap request
triggers a notification to an mdev vendor driver, who responds by
attempting to unpin mappings within that request, re-entering the
iommu backend.  We incorrectly assume that the use of read-locks here
allow for this nested locking behavior, but a poorly timed write-lock
could in fact trigger a deadlock.

The current use of group_lock seems to fall into the trap of locking
code, not data.  Correct that by removing uses of group_lock that are
not directly related to group_list.  Note that the vfio type1 iommu
backend has its own mutex, vfio_iommu.lock, which it uses to protect
itself for each of these interfaces anyway.  The group_lock appears to
be a redundancy for these interfaces and type1 even goes so far as to
release its mutex to allow for exactly the re-entrant code path above.

Reported-by: Chuanxiao Dong &lt;chuanxiao.dong@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.10+
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<title>vfio: New external user group/file match</title>
<updated>2017-06-28T19:50:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Williamson</name>
<email>alex.williamson@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-28T19:50:05+00:00</published>
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At the point where the kvm-vfio pseudo device wants to release its
vfio group reference, we can't always acquire a new reference to make
that happen.  The group can be in a state where we wouldn't allow a
new reference to be added.  This new helper function allows a caller
to match a file to a group to facilitate this.  Given a file and
group, report if they match.  Thus the caller needs to already have a
group reference to match to the file.  This allows the deletion of a
group without acquiring a new reference.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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At the point where the kvm-vfio pseudo device wants to release its
vfio group reference, we can't always acquire a new reference to make
that happen.  The group can be in a state where we wouldn't allow a
new reference to be added.  This new helper function allows a caller
to match a file to a group to facilitate this.  Given a file and
group, report if they match.  Thus the caller needs to already have a
group reference to match to the file.  This allows the deletion of a
group without acquiring a new reference.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<title>vfio: Fix group release deadlock</title>
<updated>2017-06-28T19:49:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Williamson</name>
<email>alex.williamson@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-19T15:10:32+00:00</published>
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If vfio_iommu_group_notifier() acquires a group reference and that
reference becomes the last reference to the group, then vfio_group_put
introduces a deadlock code path where we're trying to unregister from
the iommu notifier chain from within a callout of that chain.  Use a
work_struct to release this reference asynchronously.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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If vfio_iommu_group_notifier() acquires a group reference and that
reference becomes the last reference to the group, then vfio_group_put
introduces a deadlock code path where we're trying to unregister from
the iommu notifier chain from within a callout of that chain.  Use a
work_struct to release this reference asynchronously.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t =&gt; wait_queue_entry_t</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T10:18:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-20T10:06:13+00:00</published>
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Rename:

	wait_queue_t		=&gt;	wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Rename:

	wait_queue_t		=&gt;	wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfio: Use ERR_CAST() instead of open coding it</title>
<updated>2017-06-13T15:24:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-18T07:34:31+00:00</published>
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It's a small cleanup to use ERR_CAST() here.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
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It's a small cleanup to use ERR_CAST() here.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfio/pci: Add Intel XXV710 to hidden INTx devices</title>
<updated>2017-06-13T15:22:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Williamson</name>
<email>alex.williamson@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-13T15:22:57+00:00</published>
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XXV710 has the same broken INTx behavior as the rest of the X/XL710
series, the interrupt status register is not wired to report pending
INTx interrupts, thus we never associate the interrupt to the device.
Extend the device IDs to include these so that we hide that the
device supports INTx at all to the user.

Reported-by: Stefan Assmann &lt;sassmann@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg &lt;jesse.brandeburg@intel.com&gt;
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XXV710 has the same broken INTx behavior as the rest of the X/XL710
series, the interrupt status register is not wired to report pending
INTx interrupts, thus we never associate the interrupt to the device.
Extend the device IDs to include these so that we hide that the
device supports INTx at all to the user.

Reported-by: Stefan Assmann &lt;sassmann@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg &lt;jesse.brandeburg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2017-05-05T18:36:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-05T18:36:44+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we
     use a 128TB virtual address space, but a process can request access
     to the full 512TB by passing a hint to mmap().

   - Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller.

   - TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9.

   - Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator
     Interface Architecture 2.0".

   - The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and
     runtime.

   - Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as
     support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE.

   - Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts,
     correctly treating them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and
     using a new hypervisor call to trigger them, all of which should
     aid debugging and robustness.

   - Many fixes and other minor enhancements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple,
  Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton
  Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
  Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Gautham R. Shenoy,
  Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hamish Martin,
  Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh J
  Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew
  R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell
  Currey, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C.
  Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar,
  Yang Shi"

* tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits)
  powerpc/64s: Power9 has no LPCR[VRMASD] field so don't set it
  powerpc/powernv: Fix TCE kill on NVLink2
  powerpc/mm/radix: Drop support for CPUs without lockless tlbie
  powerpc/book3s/mce: Move add_taint() later in virtual mode
  powerpc/sysfs: Move #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU out of the function body
  powerpc/smp: Document irq enable/disable after migrating IRQs
  powerpc/mpc52xx: Don't select user-visible RTAS_PROC
  powerpc/powernv: Document cxl dependency on special case in pnv_eeh_reset()
  powerpc/eeh: Clean up and document event handling functions
  powerpc/eeh: Avoid use after free in eeh_handle_special_event()
  cxl: Mask slice error interrupts after first occurrence
  cxl: Route eeh events to all drivers in cxl_pci_error_detected()
  cxl: Force context lock during EEH flow
  powerpc/64: Allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST
  powerpc/xmon: Teach xmon oops about radix vectors
  powerpc/mm/hash: Fix off-by-one in comment about kernel contexts ids
  powerpc/pseries: Enable VFIO
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu table size calculation hook for small tables
  powerpc/powernv: Check kzalloc() return value in pnv_pci_table_alloc
  powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we
     use a 128TB virtual address space, but a process can request access
     to the full 512TB by passing a hint to mmap().

   - Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller.

   - TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9.

   - Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator
     Interface Architecture 2.0".

   - The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and
     runtime.

   - Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as
     support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE.

   - Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts,
     correctly treating them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and
     using a new hypervisor call to trigger them, all of which should
     aid debugging and robustness.

   - Many fixes and other minor enhancements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple,
  Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton
  Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
  Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Gautham R. Shenoy,
  Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hamish Martin,
  Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh J
  Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew
  R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell
  Currey, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C.
  Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar,
  Yang Shi"

* tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits)
  powerpc/64s: Power9 has no LPCR[VRMASD] field so don't set it
  powerpc/powernv: Fix TCE kill on NVLink2
  powerpc/mm/radix: Drop support for CPUs without lockless tlbie
  powerpc/book3s/mce: Move add_taint() later in virtual mode
  powerpc/sysfs: Move #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU out of the function body
  powerpc/smp: Document irq enable/disable after migrating IRQs
  powerpc/mpc52xx: Don't select user-visible RTAS_PROC
  powerpc/powernv: Document cxl dependency on special case in pnv_eeh_reset()
  powerpc/eeh: Clean up and document event handling functions
  powerpc/eeh: Avoid use after free in eeh_handle_special_event()
  cxl: Mask slice error interrupts after first occurrence
  cxl: Route eeh events to all drivers in cxl_pci_error_detected()
  cxl: Force context lock during EEH flow
  powerpc/64: Allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST
  powerpc/xmon: Teach xmon oops about radix vectors
  powerpc/mm/hash: Fix off-by-one in comment about kernel contexts ids
  powerpc/pseries: Enable VFIO
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu table size calculation hook for small tables
  powerpc/powernv: Check kzalloc() return value in pnv_pci_table_alloc
  powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory
  ...
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<entry>
<title>vfio/type1: Reduce repetitive calls in vfio_pin_pages_remote()</title>
<updated>2017-04-18T21:01:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Williamson</name>
<email>alex.williamson@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-17T22:07:06+00:00</published>
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vfio_pin_pages_remote() is typically called to iterate over a range
of memory.  Testing CAP_IPC_LOCK is relatively expensive, so it makes
sense to push it up to the caller, which can then repeatedly call
vfio_pin_pages_remote() using that value.  This can show nearly a 20%
improvement on the worst case path through VFIO_IOMMU_MAP_DMA with
contiguous page mapping disabled.  Testing RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is much more
lightweight, but we bring it along on the same principle and it does
seem to show a marginal improvement.

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirti Wankhede &lt;kwankhede@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
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vfio_pin_pages_remote() is typically called to iterate over a range
of memory.  Testing CAP_IPC_LOCK is relatively expensive, so it makes
sense to push it up to the caller, which can then repeatedly call
vfio_pin_pages_remote() using that value.  This can show nearly a 20%
improvement on the worst case path through VFIO_IOMMU_MAP_DMA with
contiguous page mapping disabled.  Testing RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is much more
lightweight, but we bring it along on the same principle and it does
seem to show a marginal improvement.

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirti Wankhede &lt;kwankhede@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>vfio/type1: Prune vfio_pin_page_external()</title>
<updated>2017-04-18T21:01:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Williamson</name>
<email>alex.williamson@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2017-04-16T21:57:18+00:00</published>
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With vfio_lock_acct() testing the locked memory limit under mmap_sem,
it's redundant to do it here for a single page.  We can also reorder
our tests such that we can avoid testing for reserved pages if we're
not doing accounting and let vfio_lock_acct() test the process
CAP_IPC_LOCK.  Finally, this function oddly returns 1 on success.
Update to return zero on success, -errno on error.  Since the function
only pins a single page, there's no need to return the number of pages
pinned.

N.B. vfio_pin_pages_remote() can pin a large contiguous range of pages
before calling vfio_lock_acct().  If we were to similarly remove the
extra test there, a user could temporarily pin far more pages than
they're allowed.

Suggested-by: Kirti Wankhede &lt;kwankhede@nvidia.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirti Wankhede &lt;kwankhede@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
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With vfio_lock_acct() testing the locked memory limit under mmap_sem,
it's redundant to do it here for a single page.  We can also reorder
our tests such that we can avoid testing for reserved pages if we're
not doing accounting and let vfio_lock_acct() test the process
CAP_IPC_LOCK.  Finally, this function oddly returns 1 on success.
Update to return zero on success, -errno on error.  Since the function
only pins a single page, there's no need to return the number of pages
pinned.

N.B. vfio_pin_pages_remote() can pin a large contiguous range of pages
before calling vfio_lock_acct().  If we were to similarly remove the
extra test there, a user could temporarily pin far more pages than
they're allowed.

Suggested-by: Kirti Wankhede &lt;kwankhede@nvidia.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirti Wankhede &lt;kwankhede@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
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