-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick MacArthur [mailto:patrick@patrickmacarthur.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 11:05 PM
To: dev@dpdk.org; Burakov, Anatoly <redacted>
Cc: Patrick MacArthur <redacted>
Subject: [PATCH] vfio: fix file descriptor leak in multi-process applications

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 <redacted>
---
 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 00cf919b64d0..fb4a2f84b180 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 */
--
2.9.3