From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:28:12 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: vfio: replace vfio->device_class with a const struct class
X-Git-Tag: v7.1-rc1~43^2~3
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64965b8a4274b82330433fe8888d999506a81a94;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

vfio: replace vfio->device_class with a const struct class

The class_create() call has been deprecated in favor of class_register()
as the driver core now allows for a struct class to be in read-only
memory. Replace vfio->device_class with a const struct class and drop
the class_create() call.

Compile tested with both CONFIG_VFIO_DEVICE_CDEV on and off (and
CONFIG_VFIO on); found no errors/warns in dmesg.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2023040244-duffel-pushpin-f738@gregkh/

Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
[Remove unused vfio_cdev_init() args]
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260417152814.18026-1-alex.williamson@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/device_cdev.c b/drivers/vfio/device_cdev.c
index 8ceca24ac136..54abf312cf04 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/device_cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/device_cdev.c
@@ -293,14 +293,8 @@ int vfio_df_ioctl_detach_pt(struct vfio_device_file *df,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static char *vfio_device_devnode(const struct device *dev, umode_t *mode)
+int vfio_cdev_init(void)
 {
-	return kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "vfio/devices/%s", dev_name(dev));
-}
-
-int vfio_cdev_init(struct class *device_class)
-{
-	device_class->devnode = vfio_device_devnode;
 	return alloc_chrdev_region(&device_devt, 0,
 				   MINORMASK + 1, "vfio-dev");
 }
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
index 0854f3fa1a22..e4b72e79b7e3 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ int vfio_device_fops_cdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep);
 long vfio_df_ioctl_bind_iommufd(struct vfio_device_file *df,
 				struct vfio_device_bind_iommufd __user *arg);
 void vfio_df_unbind_iommufd(struct vfio_device_file *df);
-int vfio_cdev_init(struct class *device_class);
+int vfio_cdev_init(void);
 void vfio_cdev_cleanup(void);
 #else
 static inline void vfio_init_device_cdev(struct vfio_device *device)
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static inline void vfio_df_unbind_iommufd(struct vfio_device_file *df)
 {
 }
 
-static inline int vfio_cdev_init(struct class *device_class)
+static inline int vfio_cdev_init(void)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
index 8666f35fb3f0..6222376ab6ab 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
 #define VFIO_MAGIC 0x5646494f /* "VFIO" */
 
 static struct vfio {
-	struct class			*device_class;
 	struct ida			device_ida;
 	struct vfsmount			*vfs_mount;
 	int				fs_count;
@@ -64,6 +63,16 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(enable_unsafe_noiommu_mode, "Enable UNSAFE, no-IOMMU mode.  Thi
 
 static DEFINE_XARRAY(vfio_device_set_xa);
 
+static char *vfio_device_devnode(const struct device *dev, umode_t *mode)
+{
+	return kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "vfio/devices/%s", dev_name(dev));
+}
+
+static const struct class vfio_device_class = {
+	.name		= "vfio-dev",
+	.devnode	= vfio_device_devnode
+};
+
 int vfio_assign_device_set(struct vfio_device *device, void *set_id)
 {
 	unsigned long idx = (unsigned long)set_id;
@@ -299,7 +308,7 @@ static int vfio_init_device(struct vfio_device *device, struct device *dev,
 
 	device_initialize(&device->device);
 	device->device.release = vfio_device_release;
-	device->device.class = vfio.device_class;
+	device->device.class = &vfio_device_class;
 	device->device.parent = device->dev;
 	return 0;
 
@@ -1804,13 +1813,11 @@ static int __init vfio_init(void)
 		goto err_virqfd;
 
 	/* /sys/class/vfio-dev/vfioX */
-	vfio.device_class = class_create("vfio-dev");
-	if (IS_ERR(vfio.device_class)) {
-		ret = PTR_ERR(vfio.device_class);
+	ret = class_register(&vfio_device_class);
+	if (ret)
 		goto err_dev_class;
-	}
 
-	ret = vfio_cdev_init(vfio.device_class);
+	ret = vfio_cdev_init();
 	if (ret)
 		goto err_alloc_dev_chrdev;
 
@@ -1819,8 +1826,7 @@ static int __init vfio_init(void)
 	return 0;
 
 err_alloc_dev_chrdev:
-	class_destroy(vfio.device_class);
-	vfio.device_class = NULL;
+	class_unregister(&vfio_device_class);
 err_dev_class:
 	vfio_virqfd_exit();
 err_virqfd:
@@ -1833,8 +1839,7 @@ static void __exit vfio_cleanup(void)
 	vfio_debugfs_remove_root();
 	ida_destroy(&vfio.device_ida);
 	vfio_cdev_cleanup();
-	class_destroy(vfio.device_class);
-	vfio.device_class = NULL;
+	class_unregister(&vfio_device_class);
 	vfio_virqfd_exit();
 	vfio_group_cleanup();
 	xa_destroy(&vfio_device_set_xa);