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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eduardo Otubo <otubo@redhat.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Fix hang on device removal
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:21:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6411bf3-9edd-15a7-1f4e-a9f51869129d@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180228122323.3914-1-jandryuk@gmail.com>

On 28/02/18 13:23, Jason Andryuk wrote:
> A toolstack may delete the vif frontend and backend xenstore entries
> while xen-netfront is in the removal code path.  In that case, the
> checks for xenbus_read_driver_state would return XenbusStateUnknown, and
> xennet_remove would hang indefinitely.  This hang prevents system
> shutdown.
> 
> xennet_remove must be able to handle XenbusStateUnknown, and
> netback_changed must also wake up the wake_queue for that state as well.
> 
> Fixes: 5b5971df3bc2 ("xen-netfront: remove warning when unloading module")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eduardo Otubo <otubo@redhat.com>

Committed to xen/tip for-linus-4.16a


Juergen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-28 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-28 12:23 Jason Andryuk
2018-02-28 15:21 ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2018-02-28 19:21 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2018-04-19 18:10 ` Simon Gaiser
2018-04-19 18:14   ` Jason Andryuk
2018-04-19 20:09     ` Simon Gaiser
2018-04-20 12:41       ` Jason Andryuk

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