RE: [PATCH 3/9] Drivers: hv: utils: introduce HVUTIL_TRANSPORT_DESTROY mode

From: Dexuan Cui
Date: Tue Dec 15 2015 - 07:15:06 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel [mailto:driverdev-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of K. Y. Srinivasan
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:02
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> Subject: [PATCH 3/9] Drivers: hv: utils: introduce HVUTIL_TRANSPORT_DESTROY
> mode
>
> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When Hyper-V host asks us to remove some util driver by closing the
> appropriate channel there is no easy way to force the current file
> descriptor holder to hang up but we can start to respond -EBADF to all
> operations asking it to exit gracefully.
>
> As we're setting hvt->mode from two separate contexts now we need to use
> a proper locking.
>
> ...
> @@ -99,6 +107,10 @@ static unsigned int hvt_op_poll(struct file *file,
> poll_table *wait)
> hvt = container_of(file->f_op, struct hvutil_transport, fops);
>
> poll_wait(file, &hvt->outmsg_q, wait);
> +
> + if (hvt->mode == HVUTIL_TRANSPORT_DESTROY)
> + return -EBADF;
> +
> if (hvt->outmsg_len > 0)
> return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM;

Hi Vitaly,
Should hvt_op_poll() return -EBADF -- I think it probably
should return POLLERR or POLLHUP?

-- Dexuan
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