From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Return-Path: Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:46000 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726920AbgHBS1f (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Aug 2020 14:27:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] Drop uses of pci_read_config_*() return value References: <20200801112446.149549-1-refactormyself@gmail.com> <20200801125657.GA25391@nazgul.tnic> From: Saheed Bolarinwa Message-ID: Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 19:28:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200801125657.GA25391@nazgul.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-fpga-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org To: Borislav Petkov , trix@redhat.com Cc: helgaas@kernel.org, Kalle Valo , "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Wolfgang Grandegger , Marc Kleine-Budde , Miquel Raynal , Richard Weinberger , Vignesh Raghavendra , Joerg Roedel , bjorn@helgaas.com, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net On 8/1/20 2:56 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 01:24:29PM +0200, Saheed O. Bolarinwa wrote: >> The return value of pci_read_config_*() may not indicate a device error. >> However, the value read by these functions is more likely to indicate >> this kind of error. This presents two overlapping ways of reporting >> errors and complicates error checking. > So why isn't the *value check done in the pci_read_config_* functions > instead of touching gazillion callers? Because the value ~0 has a meaning to some drivers and only drivers have this knowledge. For those cases more checks will be needed to ensure that it is an error that has actually happened. > For example, pci_conf{1,2}_read() could check whether the u32 *value it > just read depending on the access method, whether that value is ~0 and > return proper PCIBIOS_ error in that case. The primary goal is to make pci_config_read*() return void, so that there is *only* one way to check for error i.e. through the obtained value. Again, only the drivers can determine if ~0 is a valid value. This information is not available inside pci_config_read*(). - Saheed