Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] PCI: Avoid saving error values for config space

Bjorn Helgaas
2025-09-16T18:09:59Z

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 11:32:58AM -0700, Farhan Ali wrote:
> The current reset process saves the device's config space state before
> reset and restores it afterward. However, when a device is in an error
> state before reset, config space reads may return error values instead of
> valid data. This results in saving corrupted values that get written back
> to the device during state restoration.
>
> Avoid saving the state of the config space when the device is in error.
> While restoring we only restorei the state that can be restored through
> kernel data such as BARs or doesn't depend on the saved state.
>
> Signed-off-by: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> drivers/pci/pci.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c | 5 +++++
> drivers/pci/pcie/dpc.c | 5 +++++
> drivers/pci/pcie/ptm.c | 5 +++++
> drivers/pci/tph.c | 5 +++++
> drivers/pci/vc.c | 5 +++++
> 6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> index b0f4d98036cd..4b67d22faf0a 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> @@ -1720,6 +1720,11 @@ static void pci_restore_pcie_state(struct pci_dev *dev)
> struct pci_cap_saved_state *save_state;
> u16 *cap;
>
> + if (!dev->state_saved) {
> + pci_warn(dev, "Not restoring pcie state, no saved state");
> + return;

Seems like a lot of messages. If we want to warn about this, why
don't we do it once in pci_restore_state()?

I guess you're making some judgment about what things can be restored
even when !dev->state_saved. That seems kind of hard to maintain in
the future as other capabilities are added.

Also seems sort of questionable if we restore partial state and keep
using the device as if all is well. Won't the device be in some kind
of inconsistent, unpredictable state then?

Bjorn