Re: [PATCH] pcie_sriov: Remove g_new assertion

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 04:37:43PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 11/30/23 10:52, YangHang Liu wrote:
> > After applying this patch, the VM with a igbvf will not crash during reboot.
> > 
> > Tested-by: Yanghang Liu<yanghliu@redhat.com <mailto:yanghliu@redhat.com>>
> 
> Michael, do you have plans to send a PR for -rc3 ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> C.


Yes.

> 
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 5:12 PM Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com <mailto:clg@redhat.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     On 11/23/23 08:56, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
> >      > g_new() aborts if the allocation fails so it returns NULL only if the
> >      > requested allocation size is zero. register_vfs() makes such an
> >      > allocation if NumVFs is zero so it should not assert that g_new()
> >      > returns a non-NULL value.
> >      >
> >      > Fixes: 7c0fa8dff8 ("pcie: Add support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR/IOV)")
> >      > Buglink: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-17209 <https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-17209>
> >      > Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com <mailto:akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>>
> > 
> > 
> >     Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com <mailto:clg@redhat.com>>
> > 
> >     Thanks,
> > 
> >     C.
> > 
> > 
> >      > ---
> >      >   hw/pci/pcie_sriov.c | 1 -
> >      >   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >      >
> >      > diff --git a/hw/pci/pcie_sriov.c b/hw/pci/pcie_sriov.c
> >      > index 5ef8950940..a1fe65f5d8 100644
> >      > --- a/hw/pci/pcie_sriov.c
> >      > +++ b/hw/pci/pcie_sriov.c
> >      > @@ -178,7 +178,6 @@ static void register_vfs(PCIDevice *dev)
> >      >       num_vfs = pci_get_word(dev->config + sriov_cap + PCI_SRIOV_NUM_VF);
> >      >
> >      >       dev->exp.sriov_pf.vf = g_new(PCIDevice *, num_vfs);
> >      > -    assert(dev->exp.sriov_pf.vf);
> >      >
> >      >       trace_sriov_register_vfs(dev->name, PCI_SLOT(dev->devfn),
> >      >                                PCI_FUNC(dev->devfn), num_vfs);
> > 
> >