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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-06-12 22:16:35 -0600
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-06-12 22:16:35 +0930
commitef688e151c00e5d529703be9a04fd506df8bc54e (patch)
tree841d0b0bcd8a5f72f8d8bdc455672d9a6e7468ca /drivers
parent20f77f5654042cf484d8964b618faf9d620f639b (diff)
downloadlinux-ef688e151c00e5d529703be9a04fd506df8bc54e.tar.gz
virtio: meet virtio spec by finalizing features before using device
Virtio devices are supposed to negotiate features before they start using
the device, but the current code doesn't do this.  This is because the
driver's probe() function invariably has to add buffers to a virtqueue,
or probe the disk (virtio_blk).

This currently doesn't matter since no existing backend is strict about
the feature negotiation.  But it's possible to imagine a future feature
which completely changes how a device operates: in this case, we'd need
to acknowledge it before using the device.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/virtio/virtio.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
index 018c070a357f..6b6810364860 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -118,13 +118,14 @@ static int virtio_dev_probe(struct device *_d)
 		if (device_features & (1 << i))
 			set_bit(i, dev->features);
 
+	dev->config->finalize_features(dev);
+
 	err = drv->probe(dev);
 	if (err)
 		add_status(dev, VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FAILED);
-	else {
-		dev->config->finalize_features(dev);
+	else
 		add_status(dev, VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK);
-	}
+
 	return err;
 }