Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] PCI: Fix isolated PCI function probing with ARI and SR-IOV

From: Niklas Schnelle
Date: Mon Oct 27 2025 - 04:29:20 EST


On Thu, 2025-10-23 at 17:20 +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> When the isolated PCI function probing mechanism is used in conjunction
> with ARI or SR-IOV it may not find all available PCI functions. In the
> case of ARI the problem is that next_ari_fn() always returns -ENODEV if
> dev is NULL and thus if fn 0 is missing the scan stops.
>
> For SR-IOV things are more complex. Here the problem is that the check
> for multifunction may fail. One example where this can occur is if the
> first passed-through function is a VF with devfn 8. Now in
> pci_scan_slot() this means it is fn 0 and thus multifunction doesn't get
> set. Since VFs don't get multifunction set via PCI_HEADER_TYPE_MFD it
> remains unset and probing stops even if there is a devfn 9.
>
> Now at the moment both of these issues are hidden on s390. The first one
> because ARI is detected as disabled as struct pci_bus's self is NULL
> even though firmware does enable and use ARI. The second issue is hidden
> as a side effect of commit 25f39d3dcb48 ("s390/pci: Ignore RID for
> isolated VFs"). This is because VFs are either put on their own virtual
> bus if the parent PF is not passed-through to the same instance or VFs
> are hotplugged once SR-IOV is enabled on the parent PF and then
> pci_scan_single_device() is used.
>
> Still especially the first issue prevents correct detection of ARI and
> the second might be a problem for other users of isolated function
> probing. Fix both issues by keeping things as simple as possible. If
> isolated function probing is enabled simply scan every possible devfn.
>
> Fixes: 189c6c33ff42 ("PCI: Extend isolated function probing to s390")

Since I'm adding a fixes tag, I should also add Cc stable. Added for
next revision.

> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/d3f11e8562f589ddb2c1c83e74161bd8948084c3.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/pci/probe.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
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