On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 13:27 -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 09/06/2018 08:21 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 11:01 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
> > > know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Xiao Liang <xili...@redhat.com>
> > >
> > > [ Upstream commit 822fb18a82abaf4ee7058793d95d340f5dab7bfc ]
> > >
> > > When loading module manually, after call xenbus_switch_state to
> > > initializes
> > > the state of the netfront device, the driver state did not change so fast
> > > that may lead no dev created in latest kernel. This patch adds wait to
> > > make
> > > sure xenbus knows the driver is not in closed/unknown state.
> >
> > [...]
> > > --- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> > > @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ struct netfront_cb {
> > > /* IRQ name is queue name with "-tx" or "-rx" appended */
> > > #define IRQ_NAME_SIZE (QUEUE_NAME_SIZE + 3)
> > >
> > > +static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(module_load_q);
> > > static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(module_unload_q);
> > >
> > > struct netfront_stats {
> > > @@ -1335,6 +1336,11 @@ static struct net_device *xennet_create_
> > > netif_carrier_off(netdev);
> > >
> > > xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateInitialising);
> > > + wait_event(module_load_q,
> > > + xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) !=
> > > + XenbusStateClosed &&
> > > + xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) !=
> > > + XenbusStateUnknown);
> > > return netdev;
> > >
> > > exit:
> >
> > This won't work; it will hang. Something (maybe netback_changed()?)
> > needs to wake up tasks on the module_load_q.
>
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/7/691
Thanks.
Ben.
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