From: Michael Brown mbrown@fensystems.co.uk
[ Upstream commit 2afeec08ab5c86ae21952151f726bfe184f6b23d ]
The logic in connect() is currently written with the assumption that xenbus_watch_pathfmt() will return an error for a node that does not exist. This assumption is incorrect: xenstore does allow a watch to be registered for a nonexistent node (and will send notifications should the node be subsequently created).
As of commit 1f2565780 ("xen-netback: remove 'hotplug-status' once it has served its purpose"), this leads to a failure when a domU transitions into XenbusStateConnected more than once. On the first domU transition into Connected state, the "hotplug-status" node will be deleted by the hotplug_status_changed() callback in dom0. On the second or subsequent domU transition into Connected state, the hotplug_status_changed() callback will therefore never be invoked, and so the backend will remain stuck in InitWait.
This failure prevents scenarios such as reloading the xen-netfront module within a domU, or booting a domU via iPXE. There is unfortunately no way for the domU to work around this dom0 bug.
Fix by explicitly checking for existence of the "hotplug-status" node, thereby creating the behaviour that was previously assumed to exist.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown mbrown@fensystems.co.uk Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant paul@xen.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c index 9e61a6f29464..416305e6d093 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c @@ -979,11 +979,15 @@ static void connect(struct backend_info *be) xenvif_carrier_on(be->vif);
unregister_hotplug_status_watch(be); - err = xenbus_watch_pathfmt(dev, &be->hotplug_status_watch, NULL, - hotplug_status_changed, - "%s/%s", dev->nodename, "hotplug-status"); - if (!err) + if (xenbus_exists(XBT_NIL, dev->nodename, "hotplug-status")) { + err = xenbus_watch_pathfmt(dev, &be->hotplug_status_watch, + NULL, hotplug_status_changed, + "%s/%s", dev->nodename, + "hotplug-status"); + if (err) + goto err; be->have_hotplug_status_watch = 1; + }
netif_tx_wake_all_queues(be->vif->dev);