Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 3/3] vfio/common: Introduce vfio_set_irq_signaling helper

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 16:58:02 +0100
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 16:56, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:
> > When we're emulating writes to the MSI-X vector table we have no
> > failure path up to the guest.  Real hardware cannot fail to enable a
> > vector that's available in hardware, thus we can either log the issue,
> > ignore the issue, or fault.  I guess Coverity is simply noting that
> > other cases are tested while this is not, therefore we should either
> > explicitly ignore the return value with a cast to void or take this as
> > an opportunity to log the fault, which might be useful in debugging a
> > device that isn't working properly.  Thanks,  
> 
> Yeah, Coverity's check here is purely a heuristic ("did we seem
> to check returns from this function in other places?") so it's
> wrong sometimes. If you want me to mark this as a false positive
> in the coverity UI I can do that.

TBH, it seems like a good nag to log it properly.  Eric, do you mind
posting a fix to do that?  Thanks,

Alex