Kindly ping :)
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 3:34 PM Stefano Garzarella <sgarz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > These patches try to handle the hot-unplug of vsock virtio transport device in > a proper way. > > Maybe move the vsock_core_init()/vsock_core_exit() functions in the > module_init > and module_exit of vsock_virtio_transport module can't be the best way, but > the > architecture of vsock_core forces us to this approach for now. > > The vsock_core proto_ops expect a valid pointer to the transport device, so we > can't call vsock_core_exit() until there are open sockets. > > Another (little more complex) approach during the device removal, could be to > unregister the AF_VSOCK protocol, then reset all sockets and wait for their > destruction. At this point, we can set the transport pointer to NULL. > > Any suggestions would be helpful. > > v1 -> v2: > - Fixed commit message of patch 1. > > Stefano Garzarella (2): > vsock/virtio: fix kernel panic after device hot-unplug > vsock/virtio: reset connected sockets on device removal > > net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++-------- > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.20.1 >
