netdev - [PATCH v3 05/16] virtio/net: verify device has config space

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Message-ID: <1421256142-11512-6-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:27:39 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, cornelia.huck@...ibm.com,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 05/16] virtio/net: verify device has config space

Some devices might not implement config space access
(e.g. remoteproc used not to - before 3.9).
virtio/net needs config space access so make it
fail gracefully if not there.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 5ca9771..9bc1072 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1713,6 +1713,12 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	struct virtnet_info *vi;
 	u16 max_queue_pairs;
 
+	if (!vdev->config->get) {
+		dev_err(&vdev->dev, "%s failure: config access disabled\n",
+			__func__);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (!virtnet_validate_features(vdev))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-- 
MST

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