On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 06:51:29PM +0300, Yuval Shaia wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 09:30:07AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 04:44:35PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 11:09:02PM +0300, Yuval Shaia wrote:
> > > > Upon QP creation failure provider's create_qp function sets errno with
> > > > error code and return NULL to caller.
> > > >
> > > > Let's return this errno to caller to reflect the exact reason for the
> > > > error.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > librdmacm/cma.c | 2 +-
> > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/librdmacm/cma.c b/librdmacm/cma.c
> > > > index fa370650..e92a022c 100644
> > > > +++ b/librdmacm/cma.c
> > > > @@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@ int rdma_create_qp_ex(struct rdma_cm_id *id,
> > > > attr->srq = id->srq;
> > > > qp = ibv_create_qp_ex(id->verbs, attr);
> > > > if (!qp) {
> > > > - ret = ERR(ENOMEM);
> > > > + ret = ERR(errno);
> > >
> > > It is not always correct, for example
> > > ibv_create_qp_ex -> ibv_create_qp -> pd->context->ops.create_qp ->
> > > mlx5_create_qp -> create_qp -> can return NULL without updating errno.
> >
> > That is a driver bug..
> >
> > Jason
>
> Agree.
> Unfortunately there are more than one driver behaving like this. It will
> take some time to find them all and fix them. I can try to do it but wanted
> first to know if i'm on the right track.
The man page needs updating too, but yes, the expectation is that
these functions return errno.
Jason
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