Re: [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&gt; --- src/util/virnetdev.c | 31 +++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)