[PATCH] PCI/IOV: Clarify error message for unbound devices

From: Moritz Fischer
Date: Fri Jan 08 2021 - 17:08:20 EST


Be more verbose to disambiguate the error case when trying to configure
SRIOV with no driver bound vs. a driver that does not implement the
SRIOV callback.

Reported-by: Brian Foley <bpfoley@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pci/iov.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/iov.c b/drivers/pci/iov.c
index 4afd4ee4f7f0..f9ecc691daf5 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/iov.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/iov.c
@@ -304,8 +304,15 @@ static ssize_t sriov_numvfs_store(struct device *dev,
if (num_vfs == pdev->sriov->num_VFs)
goto exit;

+ /* is PF driver loaded */
+ if (!pdev->driver) {
+ pci_info(pdev, "No driver bound to device. Cannot configure SRIOV\n");
+ ret = -ENOENT;
+ goto exit;
+ }
+
/* is PF driver loaded w/callback */
- if (!pdev->driver || !pdev->driver->sriov_configure) {
+ if (!pdev->driver->sriov_configure) {
pci_info(pdev, "Driver does not support SRIOV configuration via sysfs\n");
ret = -ENOENT;
goto exit;
--
2.29.2