Re: PCI: pci_restore_state() is returning 0 when it fails

[Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Hi Rafael, 

I didn't hear back after the analysis that there is no regression
after this patch. Did you have a chance to think about this patch ?

Thanks
Breno

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 12:13 -0200, Breno Leitao wrote:
>> Hi Rafael, 
>>
>> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> On Friday 13 November 2009, Breno Leitao wrote:
>>>> Actually pci_restore_state() is returning 0 if the restore process
>>>> fails, instead of a error value.
>>>>
>>>> If it fails, I believe that it should return -EPERM, once that
>>>> it is an invalid operation and probably pci_save_state() wasn't
>>>> called.
>>> I believe this patch will break a number of things.
>> Well, I checked it, and found that there are around 10 places that
>> really verify the return value for this function, and almost all of them
>> do the correct thing, and the patch doesn't seem to break any of them
>> except a specific case in the drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c file, that contains:
> [...]
>> That's because the code is calling pci_restore_state() twice without calling
>> pci_save_state() in the middle. 
>> Since this seems to be the only place that will be broken, and the fix is
>> trivial, I believe that the patch can be applied smoothly.
> [...]
> 
> This code supports two similar PCI devices, one of which has a second
> function that is not truly independent.  For that chip it saves and
> restores both functions' config space.  So far as I know, there are no
> cases where it fails to match save and restore.
> 
> Ben.
>