3.6.11.9-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 96f97a83910cdb9d89d127c5ee523f8fc040a804 ]

If a port gets unplugged while a user is blocked on read(), -ENODEV is
returned.  However, subsequent read()s returned 0, indicating there's no
host-side connection (but not indicating the device went away).

This also happened when a port was unplugged and the user didn't have
any blocking operation pending.  If the user didn't monitor the SIGIO
signal, they won't have a chance to find out if the port went away.

Fix by returning -ENODEV on all read()s after the port gets unplugged.
write() already behaves this way.

CC: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
---
 drivers/char/virtio_console.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 4df55cb..edb2ecb 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -637,6 +637,10 @@ static ssize_t port_fops_read(struct file *filp, char 
__user *ubuf,
 
        port = filp->private_data;
 
+       /* Port is hot-unplugged. */
+       if (!port->guest_connected)
+               return -ENODEV;
+
        if (!port_has_data(port)) {
                /*
                 * If nothing's connected on the host just return 0 in
@@ -653,7 +657,7 @@ static ssize_t port_fops_read(struct file *filp, char 
__user *ubuf,
                if (ret < 0)
                        return ret;
        }
-       /* Port got hot-unplugged. */
+       /* Port got hot-unplugged while we were waiting above. */
        if (!port->guest_connected)
                return -ENODEV;
        /*
-- 
1.7.10.4


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