Once the device is created, it is not possible to hot-add new queues. If it happens, it could confuse the application, as the new queue might not be initialized but nr_vring is incremented.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coque...@redhat.com> --- lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c index e54795a41..f94fd16cf 100644 --- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c @@ -1220,13 +1220,23 @@ vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair(struct virtio_net *dev, VhostUserMsg *msg) if (vring_idx >= VHOST_MAX_VRING) { RTE_LOG(ERR, VHOST_CONFIG, "invalid vring index: %u\n", vring_idx); - return -1; + return -EINVAL; } if (dev->virtqueue[vring_idx]) return 0; - return alloc_vring_queue(dev, vring_idx); + /* Queues cannot be added dynamically */ + if (dev->flags & VIRTIO_DEV_RUNNING) { + RTE_LOG(DEBUG, VHOST_CONFIG, + "Cannot allocate new queue, device is running\n"); + return -EPERM; + } + + if (alloc_vring_queue(dev, vring_idx) < 0) + return -ENOMEM; + + return 0; } int @@ -1274,7 +1284,10 @@ vhost_user_msg_handler(int vid, int fd) vhost_message_str[msg.request.master]); ret = vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair(dev, &msg); - if (ret < 0) { + if (ret == -EPERM) { + RTE_LOG(DEBUG, VHOST_CONFIG, "Skipping message\n"); + goto out; + } else if (ret < 0) { RTE_LOG(ERR, VHOST_CONFIG, "failed to alloc queue\n"); return -1; @@ -1383,6 +1396,7 @@ vhost_user_msg_handler(int vid, int fd) } +out: if (msg.flags & VHOST_USER_NEED_REPLY) { msg.payload.u64 = !!ret; msg.size = sizeof(msg.payload.u64); -- 2.14.3