netdev - Re: [PATCH net V5] virtio-net: validate features during probe

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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:48:24 +0100
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, mst@...hat.com,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V5] virtio-net: validate features during probe

On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:03:05 +0800
Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote:

> We currently trigger BUG when VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ
> is not set but one of features depending on it is.
> That's not a friendly way to report errors to
> hypervisors.
> Let's check, and fail probe instead.
> 
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@...fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>

> +static bool virtnet_validate_features(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> +{
> +	if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ) &&
> +	    (VIRTNET_FAIL_ON(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX,
> +			     "VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ") ||
> +	     VIRTNET_FAIL_ON(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN,
> +			     "VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ") ||
> +	     VIRTNET_FAIL_ON(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE,
> +			     "VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ") ||
> +	     VIRTNET_FAIL_ON(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ, "VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ") ||
> +	     VIRTNET_FAIL_ON(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR,
> +			     "VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ"))) {
> +		return false;
> +	}
> +
> +	return true;
> +}

I still think it may make sense to print all incorrectly set bits, but
let's just fix the BUG() trigger for now.

Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>

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