[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] pci: fix access to PCI config space in bsd
Bruce Richardson
bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue May 31 18:20:13 CEST 2016
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 01:13:15PM +0530, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE ioctls to read/write PCI config space fail
> with EPERM due to missing write permission. Fix by opening /dev/pci/
> with O_RDWR instead.
>
> Fixes: 632b2d1deeed ("eal: provide functions to access PCI config")
>
> Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy at chelsio.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumaras at chelsio.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_pci.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_pci.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_pci.c
> index 2d16d78..82330be 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_pci.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_pci.c
> @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ int rte_eal_pci_read_config(const struct rte_pci_device *dev,
> goto error;
> }
>
> - fd = open("/dev/pci", O_RDONLY);
> + fd = open("/dev/pci", O_RDWR);
> if (fd < 0) {
> RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "%s(): error opening /dev/pci\n", __func__);
> goto error;
> @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ int rte_eal_pci_write_config(const struct rte_pci_device *dev,
>
> memcpy(&pi.pi_data, buf, len);
>
> - fd = open("/dev/pci", O_RDONLY);
> + fd = open("/dev/pci", O_RDWR);
> if (fd < 0) {
> RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "%s(): error opening /dev/pci\n", __func__);
> goto error;
> --
Does the read function as well as the write one need O_RDWR permissions? There
is also an ioctl in rte_eal_pci_scan which operates on a RDONLY file descriptor.
Does that need to be modified also?
/Bruce
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