[libvirt PATCH] util: don't log error if SRIOV PF has no associated netdev
Some SRIOV PFs don't have a netdev associated with them (the spec
apparently doesn't require it). In most cases when libvirt is dealing
with an SRIOV VF, that VF must have a PF, and the PF *must* have an
associated netdev (the only way to set the MAC address of a VF is by
sending a netlink message to the netdev of that VF's PF). But there
are times when we don't need for the PF to have a netdev; in
particular, when we're just getting the Switchdev Features for a VF,
we don't need the PF netdev - the netdev of the VF (apparently) works
just as well.
Commit 6452e2f5 (libvirt 5.1.0) *kind of* made libvirt work around PFs
with no netdevs in this case - if virNetDevGetPhysicalFunction
returned an error when setting up to retrieve Switchdev feature info,
it would ignore the error, and then check if the PF netdev name was
NULL and, if so it would reset the error object and continue on rather
than returning early with a failure. The problem is that by the time
this special handling occured, the error message about missing netdev
had already been logged, which was harmless to proper operation, but
confused the user.
Fortunately there are only 2 users of virNetDevGetPhysicalFunction, so
it is easy to redefine it's API to state that a missing netdev name is
*not* an error - in that case it will still return success, but the
caller must be prepared for the PF netdev name to be NULL. After
making this change, we can modify the two callers to behave properly
with the new semantics (for one of the callers it *is* still an error,
so the error message is moved there, but for the other it is okay to
continue), and our spurious error messages are a thing of the past.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1924616
Fixes: 6452e2f5e1837bd753ee465e6607ed3c4f62b815
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine(a)redhat.com>
---
src/util/virnetdev.c | 31 +++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/util/virnetdev.c b/src/util/virnetdev.c
index 2b4c8b6280..7b766234ec 100644
--- a/src/util/virnetdev.c
+++ b/src/util/virnetdev.c
@@ -1339,7 +1339,8 @@ virNetDevGetVirtualFunctionIndex(const char *pfname, const char
*vfname,
*
* @ifname : name of the physical function interface name
* @pfname : Contains sriov physical function for interface ifname
- * upon successful return
+ * upon successful return (might be NULL if the PF has no
+ * associated netdev. This is *not* an error)
*
* Returns 0 on success, -1 on failure
*
@@ -1361,15 +1362,6 @@ virNetDevGetPhysicalFunction(const char *ifname, char **pfname)
return -1;
}
- if (!*pfname) {
- /* The SRIOV standard does not require VF netdevs to have
- * the netdev assigned to a PF. */
- virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
- _("The PF device for VF %s has no network device
name"),
- ifname);
- return -1;
- }
-
return 0;
}
@@ -1442,6 +1434,17 @@ virNetDevGetVirtualFunctionInfo(const char *vfname, char **pfname,
if (virNetDevGetPhysicalFunction(vfname, pfname) < 0)
return -1;
+ if (!*pfname) {
+ /* The SRIOV standard does not require VF netdevs to have the
+ * netdev assigned to a PF, but our method of retrieving
+ * VFINFO does.
+ */
+ virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
+ _("The PF device for VF %s has no network device name, cannot
get virtual function info"),
+ vfname);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
if (virNetDevGetVirtualFunctionIndex(*pfname, vfname, vf) < 0)
goto cleanup;
@@ -3204,12 +3207,8 @@ virNetDevSwitchdevFeature(const char *ifname,
if ((is_vf = virNetDevIsVirtualFunction(ifname)) < 0)
return ret;
- if (is_vf == 1) {
- /* Ignore error if PF does not have netdev assigned.
- * In that case pfname == NULL. */
- if (virNetDevGetPhysicalFunction(ifname, &pfname) < 0)
- virResetLastError();
- }
+ if (is_vf == 1 && virNetDevGetPhysicalFunction(ifname, &pfname) < 0)
+ return ret;
pci_device_ptr = pfname ? virNetDevGetPCIDevice(pfname) :
virNetDevGetPCIDevice(ifname);
--
2.29.2