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SubjectRe: [PATCH] virtio: Return correct errno for function init_vq's failure
On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:09:18 +0800
Minfei Huang <mnghuan@gmail.com> wrote:

> The error number -ENOENT or 0 will be returned, if we can not allocate
> more memory in function init_vq. If host can support multiple virtual
> queues, and we fails to allocate necessary memory structures for vq,
> kernel may crash due to incorrect returning.
>
> To fix it, kernel will return correct value in init_vq.
>
> Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnghuan@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <minfei.hmf@alibaba-inc.com>
> ---
> drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> index 42758b5..40ecb2b 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> @@ -393,11 +393,10 @@ static int init_vq(struct virtio_blk *vblk)
> if (err)
> num_vqs = 1;
>
> + err = -ENOMEM;
> vblk->vqs = kmalloc(sizeof(*vblk->vqs) * num_vqs, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!vblk->vqs) {
> - err = -ENOMEM;
> + if (!vblk->vqs)
> goto out;
> - }
>
> names = kmalloc(sizeof(*names) * num_vqs, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!names)

The error handling in this function looks horrible.

When mq was introduced, init_vq started mixing up several things:
- The mq feature is not available - which is not an error, and
therefore should not have any influence on the return code.
- One of the several memory allocations failed - only ->vqs gets
special treatment, however.
- The ->find_vqs callback failed.

Your patch fixes the code, but it is still very convoluted due to the
temporary arrays.

May it be worthwile to introduce a helper for setting up the virtqueues
where all virtqueues are essentially the same and just get a
consecutive number? Michael?

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