When vfio_realize() succeeds, hot unplug will call vfio_exitfn() to free resources allocated in vfio_realize(); when vfio_realize() fails, vfio_exitfn() is never called and we need to free resources in vfio_realize().
In the case that vfio_migration_realize() fails, e.g: with -only-migratable & enable-migration=off, we see below: (qemu) device_add vfio-pci,host=81:11.1,id=vfio1,bus=root1,enable-migration=off 0000:81:11.1: Migration disabled Error: disallowing migration blocker (--only-migratable) for: 0000:81:11.1: Migration is disabled for VFIO device If we hotplug again we should see same log as above, but we see: (qemu) device_add vfio-pci,host=81:11.1,id=vfio1,bus=root1,enable-migration=off Error: vfio 0000:81:11.1: device is already attached That's because some references to VFIO device isn't released, we should check return value of vfio_migration_realize() and release the references, then VFIO device will be truely released when hotplug fails. Fixes: a22651053b59 ("vfio: Make vfio-pci device migration capable") Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.d...@intel.com> --- hw/vfio/pci.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci.c b/hw/vfio/pci.c index 54a8179d1c64..dc69d3031b24 100644 --- a/hw/vfio/pci.c +++ b/hw/vfio/pci.c @@ -3210,6 +3210,7 @@ static void vfio_realize(PCIDevice *pdev, Error **errp) ret = vfio_migration_realize(vbasedev, errp); if (ret) { error_report("%s: Migration disabled", vbasedev->name); + goto out_vfio_migration; } } @@ -3219,6 +3220,8 @@ static void vfio_realize(PCIDevice *pdev, Error **errp) return; +out_vfio_migration: + vfio_migration_exit(vbasedev); out_deregister: vfio_disable_interrupts(vdev); out_intx_disable: -- 2.34.1