From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: "Steven Sistare" <steven.sistare@oracle.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tap: fix net_init_tap() return code
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:32:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <268c8128-d1cf-3103-b990-e92a2e69465f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4be85e27-0990-7ba9-60a1-45d53d63004e@oracle.com>
在 2023/4/5 23:38, Steven Sistare 写道:
> On 4/4/2023 6:00 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 4/4/23 18:00, Steve Sistare wrote:
>>> When net_init_tap() succeeds for a multi-queue device, it returns a
>>> non-zero ret=1 code to its caller, because of this code where ret becomes
>> Indeed g_unix_set_fd_nonblocking() returns TRUE on success.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
>>
>>> 1 when g_unix_set_fd_nonblocking succeeds. Luckily, the only current call
>>> site checks for negative, rather than non-zero.
>>>
>>> ret = g_unix_set_fd_nonblocking(fd, true, NULL);
>>> if (!ret) {
>>> ...
>>> goto free_fail;
>>>
>>> Also, if g_unix_set_fd_nonblocking fails (though unlikely), ret=0 is returned,
>>> and the caller will use a broken interface.
>> We should return -1 from free_fail, not trying to propagate 'ret':
> Thanks for the review. I will add your "return -1" changes if Jason agrees.
>
> - Steve
Note that the "free_fail" label is kind of ambiguous. It is used even if
we succeed if I was not wrong.
Thanks
>> -- >8 --
>> diff --git a/net/tap.c b/net/tap.c
>> index 1bf085d422..e59238bda0 100644
>> --- a/net/tap.c
>> +++ b/net/tap.c
>> @@ -821,3 +821,2 @@ int net_init_tap(const Netdev *netdev, const char *name,
>> char ifname[128];
>> - int ret = 0;
>>
>> @@ -896,3 +895,2 @@ int net_init_tap(const Netdev *netdev, const char *name,
>> "the number of vhostfds passed");
>> - ret = -1;
>> goto free_fail;
>> @@ -904,3 +902,2 @@ int net_init_tap(const Netdev *netdev, const char *name,
>> if (fd == -1) {
>> - ret = -1;
>> goto free_fail;
>> @@ -908,4 +905,3 @@ int net_init_tap(const Netdev *netdev, const char *name,
>>
>> - ret = g_unix_set_fd_nonblocking(fd, true, NULL);
>> - if (!ret) {
>> + if (!g_unix_set_fd_nonblocking(fd, true, NULL)) {
>> error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "%s: Can't use file descriptor %d",
>> @@ -918,3 +914,2 @@ int net_init_tap(const Netdev *netdev, const char *name,
>> if (vnet_hdr < 0) {
>> - ret = -1;
>> goto free_fail;
>> @@ -924,3 +919,2 @@ int net_init_tap(const Netdev *netdev, const char *name,
>> "vnet_hdr not consistent across given tap fds");
>> - ret = -1;
>> goto free_fail;
>> @@ -934,3 +928,2 @@ int net_init_tap(const Netdev *netdev, const char *name,
>> error_propagate(errp, err);
>> - ret = -1;
>> goto free_fail;
>> @@ -948,3 +941,3 @@ free_fail:
>> g_free(vhost_fds);
>> - return ret;
>> + return -1;
>> } else if (tap->helper) {
>> ---
>>
>>> Fixes: a8208626ba89.. ("net: replace qemu_set_nonblock()")
>>> Signed-off-by: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
>>> ---
>>> net/tap.c | 4 ++--
>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-11 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-04 16:00 [PATCH] tap: fix net_init_tap() return code Steve Sistare
2023-04-04 22:00 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-04-05 15:38 ` Steven Sistare
2023-04-11 6:32 ` Jason Wang [this message]
2023-04-11 13:10 ` Steven Sistare
2023-04-13 6:57 ` Jason Wang
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2025-07-14 20:36 Steve Sistare
2025-07-14 22:31 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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