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    s390/pci: Improve handling of unset UID · 7a11c67a
    Niklas Schnelle authored
    When UID checking is enabled a UID value of 0 is invalid and can not be
    set by the user. On z/VM it is however used to indicate an unset UID.
    Until now, this lead to the behavior that one PCI function could be
    attached with UID 0 after which z/VM would prohibit further attachment.
    
    Now if the user then turns off UID checking in z/VM the user could
    seemingly attach additional PCI functions that would however not show up
    in Linux as that would not be informed of the change in UID checking
    mode. This is unexpected and confusing and lead to bug reports against
    Linux.
    
    Instead now, if we encounter an unset UID value of 0 treat it as
    indicating that UID checking was turned off, switch to automatic domain
    allocation, and warn the user of the possible misconfiguration.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNiklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
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