From: Baptiste Daroussin <baptiste.daroussin@ovhcloud.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 08:10:39 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: virpci: don't fail VFIO passthrough when modules.alias is missing
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2cb57390babbbfcbfaf44b84dbb3700625cc3ef7;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

virpci: don't fail VFIO passthrough when modules.alias is missing

When modules.alias is not available (e.g. monolithic kernel),
virPCIDeviceFindBestVFIOVariant() would fail, causing the entire
PCI device detach to abort.

Instead, log a warning and return success with no variant found,
allowing the caller to fall back to the generic vfio-pci driver.

Signed-off-by: Baptiste Daroussin <baptiste.daroussin@ovhcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/src/util/virpci.c b/src/util/virpci.c
index 642717d23c..98e030b92c 100644
--- a/src/util/virpci.c
+++ b/src/util/virpci.c
@@ -1549,6 +1549,12 @@ virPCIDeviceFindBestVFIOVariant(virPCIDevice *dev,
 
     uname(&unameInfo);
     modulesAliasPath = g_strdup_printf("/lib/modules/%s/modules.alias", unameInfo.release);
+    if (!virFileExists(modulesAliasPath)) {
+        /* on monolithic kernel this file does not exist */
+        VIR_DEBUG("modules.alias not available (%s), skipping VFIO variant detection",
+                 modulesAliasPath);
+        return 0;
+    }
     if (virFileReadAll(modulesAliasPath, 8 * 1024 * 1024, &modulesAliasContent) < 0)
         return -1;