Re: [PATCH] virtio: Return correct errno for function init_vq's failure

[Minfei Huang]

On 07/06/16 at 11:18P, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:09:18 +0800
> Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The error number -ENOENT or 0 will be returned, if we can not allocate
> > more memory in function init_vq. If host can support multiple virtual
> > queues, and we fails to allocate necessary memory structures for vq,
> > kernel may crash due to incorrect returning.
> > 
> > To fix it, kernel will return correct value in init_vq.
> The error handling in this function looks horrible.
> 
> When mq was introduced, init_vq started mixing up several things:
> - The mq feature is not available - which is not an error, and
> therefore should not have any influence on the return code.
> - One of the several memory allocations failed - only ->vqs gets
> special treatment, however.
> - The ->find_vqs callback failed.

Yep. And without this patch, it is silent for boot failure. I think it
makes sense to let user notify about this failure.

> 
> Your patch fixes the code, but it is still very convoluted due to the
> temporary arrays.
> 
> May it be worthwile to introduce a helper for setting up the virtqueues
> where all virtqueues are essentially the same and just get a
> consecutive number? Michael?
> 

Hmm, How about refactor this function to make it more readable, since we
do a lot of work in it.

I will post an update to refactor this function.

Thanks
Minfei