[PATCH] PCI/IOV: update num_VFs earlier

From: Pierre CrÃgut
Date: Fri Mar 29 2019 - 04:10:05 EST


Ensure that iov->num_VFs is set before a netlink message is sent
when the number of VFs is changed. Only the path for num_VFs > 0
is affected. The path for num_VFs = 0 is already correct.

Monitoring programs can relie on netlink messages to track interface
change and query their state in /sys. But when sriov_numvfs is set to a
positive value, the netlink message is sent before the value is available
in sysfs. The value read after the message is received is always zero.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202991
Signed-off-by: Pierre CrÃgut <pierre.cregut@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
note: the behaviour can be tested with the following shell script also
available on the bugzilla (d being the phy device name):

ip monitor dev $d | grep --line-buffered "^[0-9]*:" | \
while read line; do cat /sys/class/net/$d/device/sriov_numvfs; done

drivers/pci/iov.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/iov.c b/drivers/pci/iov.c
index 3aa115ed3a65..a9655c10e87f 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/iov.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/iov.c
@@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ static int sriov_enable(struct pci_dev *dev, int nr_virtfn)
goto err_pcibios;
}

+ iov->num_VFs = nr_virtfn;
pci_iov_set_numvfs(dev, nr_virtfn);
iov->ctrl |= PCI_SRIOV_CTRL_VFE | PCI_SRIOV_CTRL_MSE;
pci_cfg_access_lock(dev);
@@ -363,7 +364,6 @@ static int sriov_enable(struct pci_dev *dev, int nr_virtfn)
goto err_pcibios;

kobject_uevent(&dev->dev.kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE);
- iov->num_VFs = nr_virtfn;

return 0;

@@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ static int sriov_enable(struct pci_dev *dev, int nr_virtfn)
if (iov->link != dev->devfn)
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->dev.kobj, "dep_link");

+ iov->num_VFs = 0;
pci_iov_set_numvfs(dev, 0);
return rc;
}
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2.17.1