[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] pci: remove unnecessary access() check

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Aug 13 17:38:22 CEST 2019


Just open the sysfs file and handle failure, rather than
using access(). This eliminates Coverity warnings about
"time of check versus time of use"; although for this sysfs
file that is not really an issue anyway.

Coverity ID: 347276
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c b/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c
index 43debaa25114..6c444aa7ae3d 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c
@@ -512,18 +512,19 @@ pci_device_iommu_support_va(const struct rte_pci_device *dev)
 		 "%s/" PCI_PRI_FMT "/iommu/intel-iommu/cap",
 		 rte_pci_get_sysfs_path(), addr->domain, addr->bus, addr->devid,
 		 addr->function);
-	if (access(filename, F_OK) == -1) {
-		/* We don't have an Intel IOMMU, assume VA supported*/
-		return true;
-	}
 
-	/* We have an intel IOMMU */
 	fp = fopen(filename, "r");
 	if (fp == NULL) {
-		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "%s(): can't open %s\n", __func__, filename);
+		/* We don't have an Intel IOMMU, assume VA supported*/
+		if (errno == ENOENT)
+			return true;
+
+		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "%s(): can't open %s: %s\n",
+			__func__, filename, strerror(errno));
 		return false;
 	}
 
+	/* We have an intel IOMMU */
 	if (fscanf(fp, "%" PRIx64, &vtd_cap_reg) != 1) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "%s(): can't read %s\n", __func__, filename);
 		fclose(fp);
-- 
2.20.1



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