RE: [PATCH V4 10/11] vfio/pci: Support dynamic MSI-X

From: Tian, Kevin
Date: Sat May 06 2023 - 04:13:58 EST


> From: Chatre, Reinette <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2023 1:21 AM
>
> Would you be ok with something like below?
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c
> index b549f5c97cb8..a8e96254f953 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c
> @@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ static int vfio_msi_alloc_irq(struct
> vfio_pci_core_device *vdev,
> u16 cmd;
>
> irq = pci_irq_vector(pdev, vector);
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(irq == 0))
> + return -EINVAL;
> if (irq > 0 || !msix || !vdev->has_dyn_msix)
> return irq;
>
> I would prefer that vfio_msi_alloc_irq() returns negative errors. This enables
> callers to in turn just return the error code on failure (note that dynamic
> allocation can return different error codes), not needing to translate 0 into
> an error.
>

This looks good to me. Thanks.