The userspace utility "driverctl" can be used to change/override the
system's default driver choices. This is useful in some situations
(buggy driver, old driver missing a device ID, trying a workaround,
etc.) where the user needs to load a different driver.
However, this is also prone to user error, where a driver is mapped
to a device it's not designed to drive. For example, if the ice driver
is mapped to driver iavf devices, the ice driver crashes.
Add a check to return an error if the ice driver is being used to
probe a virtual function.
Fixes: 837f08fdecbe ("ice: Add basic driver framework for Intel(R) E800 Series")
Signed-off-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Gurucharan G <gurucharanx.g@intel.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Jankowski <konrad0.jankowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
struct ice_hw *hw;
int i, err;
+ if (pdev->is_virtfn) {
+ dev_err(dev, "can't probe a virtual function\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
/* this driver uses devres, see
* Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst
*/