[patch V3 28/35] PCI/MSI: Simplify pci_irq_get_affinity()

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Tue Feb 1 09:29:49 AEDT 2022


On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:16:41PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Guenter,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 31 2022 at 07:21, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Sure. Please see http://server.roeck-us.net/qemu/x86/.
> > The logs are generated with with v5.16.4.
> 
> thanks for providing the data. It definitely helped me to leave the
> state of not seeing the wood for the trees. Fix below.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         tglx
> ---
> Subject: PCI/MSI: Remove bogus warning in pci_irq_get_affinity()
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 22:02:46 +0100
> 
> The recent overhaul of pci_irq_get_affinity() introduced a regression when
> pci_irq_get_affinity() is called for an MSI-X interrupt which was not
> allocated with affinity descriptor information.
> 
> The original code just returned a NULL pointer in that case, but the rework
> added a WARN_ON() under the assumption that the corresponding WARN_ON() in
> the MSI case can be applied to MSI-X as well.
> 
> In fact the MSI warning in the original code does not make sense either
> because it's legitimate to invoke pci_irq_get_affinity() for a MSI
> interrupt which was not allocated with affinity descriptor information.
> 
> Remove it and just return NULL as the original code did.
> 
> Fixes: f48235900182 ("PCI/MSI: Simplify pci_irq_get_affinity()")
> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>

Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/pci/msi/msi.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/pci/msi/msi.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/msi/msi.c
> @@ -1111,7 +1111,8 @@ const struct cpumask *pci_irq_get_affini
>  	if (!desc)
>  		return cpu_possible_mask;
>  
> -	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!desc->affinity))
> +	/* MSI[X] interrupts can be allocated without affinity descriptor */
> +	if (!desc->affinity)
>  		return NULL;
>  
>  	/*


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