udev: make /dev/vfio/vfio 0666

alyssais · keszybz · commit f8eb41003df1 · 2021-05-05T17:22:00.000+02:00
Quoting Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst in Linux:

&gt; note that /dev/vfio/vfio provides no capabilities on its own and is therefore
&gt; expected to be set to mode 0666 by the system
diff --git a/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.in b/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.in
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ KERNEL=="fuse", MODE="0666", OPTIONS+="static_node=fuse"
 # The static_node is required on s390x and ppc (they are using MODULE_ALIAS)
 KERNEL=="kvm", GROUP="kvm", MODE="@DEV_KVM_MODE@", OPTIONS+="static_node=kvm"
 
+KERNEL=="vfio", MODE="0666", OPTIONS+="static_node=vfio/vfio"
+
 KERNEL=="vsock", MODE="0666"
 KERNEL=="vhost-vsock", GROUP="kvm", MODE="@DEV_KVM_MODE@", OPTIONS+="static_node=vhost-vsock"
 
