[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: Fixes VFIO/sysfs race condition

[Michael Haeuptle]

This fix treats a 0 return value from vfio_open_group_fd
in vfio_get_group_fd as the intended error condition instead
of putting an incorrect 0 file descriptor in the vfio_group table.

Sometimes, the creation of device files in sysfs is not
instantaneously causing vfio_open_groupfd to return 0.
This has been observed when hot removing/adding multiple
NVMe devices (>=4).

Signed-off-by: Michael Haeuptle <michael.haeuptle at hpe.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_vfio.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_vfio.c b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_vfio.c
index 4502aefed..1979f6fdd 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_vfio.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_vfio.c
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ vfio_get_group_fd(struct vfio_config *vfio_cfg,
 	}
 
 	vfio_group_fd = vfio_open_group_fd(iommu_group_num);
-	if (vfio_group_fd < 0) {
+	if (vfio_group_fd <= 0) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Failed to open group %d\n", iommu_group_num);
 		return -1;
 	}
-- 
2.18.2