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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] net/vhost: create datagram sockets
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:06:31 +0800
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On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:22:42AM -0500, Charles (Chas) Williams wrote:
> If you create a vhost server device, it doesn't create the actual datagram
> socket until you call .dev_start().  If you call .dev_stop() is also
> deletes those sockets.  For QEMU clients, this is a problem since QEMU
> doesn't know how to re-attach to datagram sockets that have gone away.
> 
> To fix this, register and unregister the datagram sockets during device
> creation and removal.
> 
> Fixes: ee584e9710b9 ("vhost: add driver on top of the library")

Both patches applied to dpdk-next-virtio. Thanks!

Note that we prefer a title of "prefix: fix ..." for bug fixing patch.
For this reason, I have changed the title for you while apply:

    net/vhost: fix socket file being deleted on dev stop

Also, stable is cc'ed.

	--yliu