[PATCH v2 1/2] virtio: make virtio_add_queue() queue_size an unsigned int

Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:58:45 -0400
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.virtio-fs,org.nongnu.qemu-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
virtio_add_queue()'s queue_size argument is a signed int. The
vdev->vq[i].vring.num and num_default fields are already declared as
unsigned int, so change the virtio_add_queue() argument's type for
consistency.

A note on consistency: the VIRTIO specification defines queue size as an
unsigned 16-bit value. QEMU's device models variously use uint16_t,
uint32_t, and other unsigned types for queue size qdev properties.
virtio_add_queue() limits queue size to the much smaller
VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE (1024) constant, so the different widths don't really
matter.

I have checked that all callers of virtio_add_queue() pass an unsigned
queue size.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
---
 include/hw/virtio/virtio.h | 2 +-
 hw/virtio/virtio.c         | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
index c99cb19d886..ff7f837fb92 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ void virtio_device_set_child_bus_name(VirtIODevice *vdev, char *bus_name);
 
 typedef void (*VirtIOHandleOutput)(VirtIODevice *, VirtQueue *);
 
-VirtQueue *virtio_add_queue(VirtIODevice *vdev, int queue_size,
+VirtQueue *virtio_add_queue(VirtIODevice *vdev, unsigned int queue_size,
                             VirtIOHandleOutput handle_output);
 
 void virtio_del_queue(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n);
diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
index daa5607338c..e1210f024c6 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -2564,7 +2564,7 @@ void virtio_queue_set_vector(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n, uint16_t vector)
     }
 }
 
-VirtQueue *virtio_add_queue(VirtIODevice *vdev, int queue_size,
+VirtQueue *virtio_add_queue(VirtIODevice *vdev, unsigned int queue_size,
                             VirtIOHandleOutput handle_output)
 {
     int i;
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