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Re: [PATCH] tools/xl: fix channel configuration setting



On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 03:20:05PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Channels work differently than other device types: their devid should
> be -1 initially in order to distinguish them from the primary console
> which has the devid of 0.
> 
> So when parsing the channel configuration, set devid explicitly to -1
> after expanding the channels array, as this expansion of the array will
> have set the devid to the index of the item in the array, overwriting
> the -1 initialization done by libxl_device_channel_init().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/xl/xl_parse.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/xl/xl_parse.c b/tools/xl/xl_parse.c
> index 3d85be7dd4..4705f6fd4b 100644
> --- a/tools/xl/xl_parse.c
> +++ b/tools/xl/xl_parse.c
> @@ -2426,6 +2426,9 @@ void parse_config_data(const char *config_source,
>              chn = ARRAY_EXTEND_INIT(d_config->channels, 
> d_config->num_channels,
>                                     libxl_device_channel_init);
>  
> +            /* ARRAY_EXTEND_INIT() has set the devid, but it must be -1. */
> +            chn->devid = -1;
> +

You can use ARRAY_EXTEND_INIT_NODEVID() instead which doesn't touch
`devid` and let the value set by libxl_device_channel_init().

Cheers,

-- 

Anthony Perard | Vates XCP-ng Developer

XCP-ng & Xen Orchestra - Vates solutions

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