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; -- 2.5.3