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Michael Brown 2ccca12462 xen-netback: Check for hotplug-status existence before watching
[ 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>
2021-04-28 13:19:15 +02:00
arch s390/entry: save the caller of psw_idle 2021-04-28 13:19:15 +02:00
block block: only update parent bi_status when bio fail 2021-04-16 11:46:38 +02:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 10:26:29 +01:00
crypto crypto: x86 - Regularize glue function prototypes 2021-03-20 10:39:47 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: fix typo in NVMEM 2021-04-14 08:24:18 +02:00
drivers xen-netback: Check for hotplug-status existence before watching 2021-04-28 13:19:15 +02:00
fs readdir: make sure to verify directory entry for legacy interfaces too 2021-04-21 12:56:16 +02:00
include gpio: omap: Save and restore sysconfig 2021-04-28 13:19:14 +02:00
init init/Kconfig: make COMPILE_TEST depend on HAS_IOMEM 2021-04-10 13:34:32 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel locking/qrwlock: Fix ordering in queued_write_lock_slowpath() 2021-04-28 13:19:14 +02:00
lib PCI: Fix pci_register_io_range() memory leak 2021-03-17 17:03:44 +01:00
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tools perf auxtrace: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference 2021-04-28 13:19:15 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
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