Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] s390: vfio_ap: link the vfio_ap devices to the vfio_ap bus subsystem

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Mon Feb 18 2019 - 07:02:00 EST


On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:59:33 -0500
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2/15/19 4:11 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:30:59 -0500
> > Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2/14/19 12:36 PM, Pierre Morel wrote:
> >>> On 14/02/2019 17:57, Cornelia Huck wrote:

> >>>> (And reading further in the current code, it seems we clear that
> >>>> structure _after_ the matrix device had been setup, so how can that
> >>>> even work? Where am I confused?)
> >>>
> >>> On device_register there were no bus, so the core just do not look for a
> >>> driver and this field was nor tested nor overwritten.
> >
> > Hm... so has the callback in driver_for_each_device() in
> > vfio_ap_verify_queue_reserved() ever been invoked at all? It seems this
> > patch fixes more than just libudev issues...
>
> It is this patch that rendered the driver_for_each_device() in
> vfio_ap_verify_queue_reserved() erroneous. That function gets called
> every time an adapter or domain is assigned to the mdev. This patch
> introduced the problem with driver_for_each_device().

So, does this function need to be removed or called from another place,
then? (It looks like it was dead code before.)