Re: [PATCH] vfio/platform: Fix reset_required behaviour

[Alex Williamson]

On Fri,  3 Mar 2023 12:11:52 +0000
Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> vfio_platform_device has a flag reset_required that can be set from
> module_param or vfio driver which indicates that reset is not a
> requirement and it bypasses related checks.
> 
> This was introduced and implemented in vfio_platform_probe_common in
> "b5add544d67 vfio, platform: make reset driver a requirement by default"
> 
> However, vfio_platform_probe_common was removed in
> "ac1237912fb vfio/amba: Use the new device life cycle helpers"
> 
> And new implementation added in vfio_platform_init_common in
> "5f6c7e0831a vfio/platform: Use the new device life cycle helpers"
> 
> which causes an error even if vfio-platform.reset_required=0, as it
> only guards printing and not the return as before.
> 
> This patch fixes this by returning 0 if there is no reset function
> for the device and reset_required=0. This is also consistent with
> checks in vfio_platform_open_device and vfio_platform_close_device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c b/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c
> index 1a0a238ffa35..7325ff463cf0 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c
> @@ -650,10 +650,13 @@ int vfio_platform_init_common(struct vfio_platform_device *vdev)
>  	mutex_init(&vdev->igate);
>  
>  	ret = vfio_platform_get_reset(vdev);
> -	if (ret && vdev->reset_required)
> +	if (ret && vdev->reset_required) {
>  		dev_err(dev, "No reset function found for device %s\n",
>  			vdev->name);
> -	return ret;
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfio_platform_init_common);
>  

An identical patch has already accepted and merged for v6.3:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=168a9c91fe0a1180959b6394f4566de7080244b6

Thanks,
Alex