Bug Description: A bug in the vfio_pci driver was reported in junction with work on FPGA cards. We were able to reproduce and root-cause the bug using system-tap. The original bug description is below. An understanding of the referenced dfl and opae tools is not required - it is the sequence of IOCTL calls and IRQ vectors that matters: > I’m trying to get an example AFU working that uses 2 IRQs, active at the same > time. I’m hitting what looks to be a dfl_pci driver bug. > > The code tries to allocate two IRQ vectors: 0 and 1. I see opaevfio.c doing the > right thing, picking the MSIX index. Allocating either IRQ 0 or IRQ 1 works fine > and I confirm that the VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS looks reasonable, choosing MSIX and > either start of 0 or 1 and count 1. > > Note that opaevfio.c always passes count 1, so it will make separate calls for > each IRQ vector. > > When I try to allocate both, I see the following: > > * If the VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS ioctl is called first with start 0 and then > start 1 (always count 1), the start 1 (second) ioctl trap returns EINVAL. > * If I set up the vectors in decreasing order, so start 1 followed by start 0, > the program works! > * I ruled out OPAE SDK user space problems by setting up my program to > allocate in increasing order, which would normally fail. I changed only the > ioctl call in user space opaevfio.c, inverting bit 0 of start so that the > driver is called in decreasing index order. Of course this binds the wrong > vectors to the fds, but I don’t care about that for now. This works! From > this, I conclude that it can’t be a user space problem since the difference > between working and failing is solely the order in which IRQ vectors are > bound in ioctl calls. The EINVAL is coming from vfio_msi_set_block() here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c#L373 vfio_msi_set_block() is being called from vfio_pci_set_msi_trigger() here on the second IRQ request: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c#L530 We believe the bug is in vfio_pci_set_msi_trigger(), in the 2nd parameter to the call to vfio_msi_enable() here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c#L533 In both the passing and failing cases, the first IRQ request results in a call to vfio_msi_enable() at line 533 and the second IRQ request results in the call to vfio_msi_set_block() at line 530. It is during the first IRQ request that vfio_msi_enable() sets vdev->num_ctx based on the 2nd parameter (nvec). vdev->num_ctx is part of the conditional that results in the EINVAL for the failing case. In the passing case, vdev->num_ctx is 2. In the failing case, it is 1. I am attaching two text files containing trace information from systemtap: one for the failing case and one for the passing case. They contain a lot more information than is needed, but if you search for vfio_pci_set_msi_trigger and vfio_msi_set_block, you will see values for some of the call parameters. - Russ