[PATCH 0/5] drivers: xen frontend devices should handle missed backend CLOSING

[PATCH 0/5] drivers: xen frontend devices should handle missed backend CLOSING

[David Vrabel]

Subsystem maintainers, you can either pick up the relevant driver patch
or ack it to go via Konrad's Xen tree.

The series makes all the Xen frontend drivers handle the backend
transitioning to CLOSED without the frontend having previously seen
the backend in the CLOSING state.

Backends shouldn't do this but some do.  e.g., if the host is
XenServer and the toolstack decides to do a forced shutdown of a VBD,
then the blkfront may miss the CLOSING transition and the /dev/xvdX
device will not be destroyed which prevents it being reused.

I have seen systems that ended up in this state but it's not clear if
this was the actual cause.  However, I think in general it's a good
thing to thing to improve the handling of unexpected state
transitions.

David

[PATCH 1/5] xen-netfront: handle backend CLOSED without CLOSING

[David Vrabel]

From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>

Backend drivers shouldn't transistion to CLOSED unless the frontend is
CLOSED.  If a backend does transition to CLOSED too soon then the
frontend may not see the CLOSING state and will not properly shutdown.

So, treat an unexpected backend CLOSED state the same as CLOSING.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index caa0110..40cde51 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1701,7 +1701,6 @@ static void netback_changed(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 	case XenbusStateReconfiguring:
 	case XenbusStateReconfigured:
 	case XenbusStateUnknown:
-	case XenbusStateClosed:
 		break;
 
 	case XenbusStateInitWait:
@@ -1716,6 +1715,10 @@ static void netback_changed(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 		netdev_notify_peers(netdev);
 		break;
 
+	case XenbusStateClosed:
+		if (dev->state == XenbusStateClosed)
+			break;
+		/* Missed the backend's CLOSING state -- fallthrough */
 	case XenbusStateClosing:
 		xenbus_frontend_closed(dev);
 		break;
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