This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

xen-netfront: remove warning when unloading module

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: xen-netfront-remove-warning-when-unloading-module.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Thu Feb 1 13:45:42 CET 2018

From: Eduardo Otubo otubo@redhat.com Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:18:35 +0100 Subject: xen-netfront: remove warning when unloading module

From: Eduardo Otubo otubo@redhat.com

[ Upstream commit 5b5971df3bc2775107ddad164018a8a8db633b81 ]

v2: * Replace busy wait with wait_event()/wake_up_all() * Cannot garantee that at the time xennet_remove is called, the xen_netback state will not be XenbusStateClosed, so added a condition for that * There's a small chance for the xen_netback state is XenbusStateUnknown by the time the xen_netfront switches to Closed, so added a condition for that.

When unloading module xen_netfront from guest, dmesg would output warning messages like below:

[ 105.236836] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x903 still in use! [ 105.236839] deferring g.e. 0x903 (pfn 0x35805)

This problem relies on netfront and netback being out of sync. By the time netfront revokes the g.e.'s netback didn't have enough time to free all of them, hence displaying the warnings on dmesg.

The trick here is to make netfront to wait until netback frees all the g.e.'s and only then continue to cleanup for the module removal, and this is done by manipulating both device states.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Otubo otubo@redhat.com Acked-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c @@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ 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_unload_q); + struct netfront_stats { u64 packets; u64 bytes; @@ -2021,10 +2023,12 @@ static void netback_changed(struct xenbu break;

case XenbusStateClosed: + wake_up_all(&module_unload_q); if (dev->state == XenbusStateClosed) break; /* Missed the backend's CLOSING state -- fallthrough */ case XenbusStateClosing: + wake_up_all(&module_unload_q); xenbus_frontend_closed(dev); break; } @@ -2130,6 +2134,20 @@ static int xennet_remove(struct xenbus_d

dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s\n", dev->nodename);

+ if (xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) != XenbusStateClosed) { + xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateClosing); + wait_event(module_unload_q, + xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) == + XenbusStateClosing); + + xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateClosed); + wait_event(module_unload_q, + xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) == + XenbusStateClosed || + xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) == + XenbusStateUnknown); + } + xennet_disconnect_backend(info);

unregister_netdev(info->netdev);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from otubo@redhat.com are

queue-4.14/xen-netfront-remove-warning-when-unloading-module.patch