Re: [PATCH V3 4/6] vDPA: !FEATURES_OK should not block querying device config space

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 10:12:49PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: Zhu Lingshan <lingshan.zhu@intel.com>
> > Sent: Friday, July 1, 2022 9:28 AM
> > 
> > Users may want to query the config space of a vDPA device, to choose a
> > appropriate one for a certain guest. This means the users need to read the
> > config space before FEATURES_OK, and the existence of config space
> > contents does not depend on FEATURES_OK.
> > 
> > The spec says:
> > The device MUST allow reading of any device-specific configuration field
> > before FEATURES_OK is set by the driver. This includes fields which are
c> > conditional on feature bits, as long as those feature bits are offered by the
> > device.
> > 
> > Fixes: 30ef7a8ac8a07 (vdpa: Read device configuration only if FEATURES_OK)
> Fix is fine, but fixes tag needs correction described below.
> 
> Above commit id is 13 letters should be 12.
> And 
> It should be in format
> Fixes: 30ef7a8ac8a0 ("vdpa: Read device configuration only if FEATURES_OK")

Yea you normally use

--format='Fixes: %h (\"%s\")'


> Please use checkpatch.pl script before posting the patches to catch these errors.
> There is a bot that looks at the fixes tag and identifies the right kernel version to apply this fix.


I don't think checkpatch complains about this if for no other reason
that sometimes the 6 byte hash is not enough.

> > Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lingshan.zhu@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c | 8 --------
> >  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c index
> > 9b0e39b2f022..d76b22b2f7ae 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
> > @@ -851,17 +851,9 @@ vdpa_dev_config_fill(struct vdpa_device *vdev,
> > struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid,  {
> >  	u32 device_id;
> >  	void *hdr;
> > -	u8 status;
> >  	int err;
> > 
> >  	down_read(&vdev->cf_lock);
> > -	status = vdev->config->get_status(vdev);
> > -	if (!(status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FEATURES_OK)) {
> > -		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Features negotiation not
> > completed");
> > -		err = -EAGAIN;
> > -		goto out;
> > -	}
> > -
> >  	hdr = genlmsg_put(msg, portid, seq, &vdpa_nl_family, flags,
> >  			  VDPA_CMD_DEV_CONFIG_GET);
> >  	if (!hdr) {
> > --
> > 2.31.1