On 11/13/2014 04:53 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:52:54 +0800
> Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> This patch tries to detect the possible buggy features advertised by host
>> and fix them. One example is booting virtio-net with only ctrl_vq disabled,
>> qemu may still advertise many features which depends on it. This will
>> trigger several BUG()s in virtnet_send_command().
>>
>> This patch utilizes the fix_features() method, and disables all features that
>> depends on ctrl_vq if it was not advertised.
>>
>> This fixes the crash when booting with ctrl_vq=off.
> That's a qemu device property, right? Might want to mention that, as
> this line sounds like it is a kernel parameter.
Right, ok.
>> Cc: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>
>> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> Changes from V1:
>> - fix the cut-and-paste error
>> ---
>> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> index ec2a8b4..6ce125e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> @@ -1948,6 +1948,40 @@ static int virtnet_restore(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>> }
>> #endif
>>
>> +static void virtnet_fix_features(struct virtio_device *dev)
>> +{
>> + if (!virtio_has_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ)) {
>> + if (virtio_has_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX)) {
>> + pr_warning("Disable VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX since host "
>> + "does not advertise VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ");
>> + virtio_disable_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX);
>> + }
> You should probably use dev_warn() or so, so that the user can figure
> out which device the message is for. And perhaps add "buggy hypervisor"
> to the message to make clear that it's not a guest problem.
Ok.
> I also like the suggestion to use a dependency array.
>
Yes, will do it in next version.
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