[dpdk-stable] patch 'vfio: fix file descriptor leak in multi-process' has been queued to stable release 16.11.1

[Yuanhan Liu]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 16.11.1

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable
yet. It will be pushed if I get no objections before 02/18/17.
So please shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From 884ba36ce34940bacfc11a9cce254791ea15ecba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick MacArthur <patrick at patrickmacarthur.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:05:21 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] vfio: fix file descriptor leak in multi-process

[ upstream commit 811b6b25060f8b0ba32fd35af7c5f0354bd57a14 ]

When a secondary process wants access to the VFIO container file
descriptor, the primary process calls vfio_get_container_fd() which
always opens an entirely new file descriptor on /dev/vfio/vfio.
However, once the file descriptor has been passed to the subprocess, it
is effectively duplicated, meaning that the copy of the file descriptor
in the primary process is no longer needed.  However, the primary
process does not close the duplicate fd, which results in a resource
leak.

This can be reproduced by starting a primary process with a small
RLIMIT_NOFILE limit configured to use VFIO for at least one device, and
repeatedly launching secondary processes until the file descriptor limit
is exceeded.

Fix the resource leak by closing the local vfio container file
descriptor after passing it to the secondary process.

Fixes: 2f4adfad0a69 ("vfio: add multiprocess support")

Signed-off-by: Patrick MacArthur <patrick at patrickmacarthur.net>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio_mp_sync.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio_mp_sync.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio_mp_sync.c
index 00cf919..fb4a2f8 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio_mp_sync.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio_mp_sync.c
@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ vfio_mp_sync_thread(void __rte_unused * arg)
 				vfio_mp_sync_send_request(conn_sock, SOCKET_ERR);
 			else
 				vfio_mp_sync_send_fd(conn_sock, fd);
+			close(fd);
 			break;
 		case SOCKET_REQ_GROUP:
 			/* wait for group number */
-- 
1.9.0