[PATCH RFC v4 16/17] KVM: s390 allow virtio_ccw status writes to fail

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Oct 23 2014 - 12:22:36 EST


Gracefully handle failure to write device status.
We really should handle other errors as well, but this one is needed for
virtio 1.0 compliance.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/s390/kvm/virtio_ccw.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/kvm/virtio_ccw.c b/drivers/s390/kvm/virtio_ccw.c
index a994078..26e737c 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/kvm/virtio_ccw.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/kvm/virtio_ccw.c
@@ -862,7 +862,9 @@ static u8 virtio_ccw_get_status(struct virtio_device *vdev)
static void virtio_ccw_set_status(struct virtio_device *vdev, u8 status)
{
struct virtio_ccw_device *vcdev = to_vc_device(vdev);
+ u8 old_status = vcdev->status;
struct ccw1 *ccw;
+ int ret;

ccw = kzalloc(sizeof(*ccw), GFP_DMA | GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ccw)
@@ -874,7 +876,10 @@ static void virtio_ccw_set_status(struct virtio_device *vdev, u8 status)
ccw->flags = 0;
ccw->count = sizeof(status);
ccw->cda = (__u32)(unsigned long)vcdev->status;
- ccw_io_helper(vcdev, ccw, VIRTIO_CCW_DOING_WRITE_STATUS);
+ ret = ccw_io_helper(vcdev, ccw, VIRTIO_CCW_DOING_WRITE_STATUS);
+ /* Write failed? We assume status is unchanged. */
+ if (ret)
+ *vcdev->status = old_status;
kfree(ccw);
}

--
MST

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/