Patch "xen: netback: read hotplug script once at start of day." has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    xen: netback: read hotplug script once at start of day.

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xen-netback-read-hotplug-script-once-at-start-of-day.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 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 Sat Jun 13 09:48:35 PDT 2015
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 11:30:24 +0100
Subject: xen: netback: read hotplug script once at start of day.

From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>

[ Upstream commit 31a418986a5852034d520a5bab546821ff1ccf3d ]

When we come to tear things down in netback_remove() and generate the
uevent it is possible that the xenstore directory has already been
removed (details below).

In such cases netback_uevent() won't be able to read the hotplug
script and will write a xenstore error node.

A recent change to the hypervisor exposed this race such that we now
sometimes lose it (where apparently we didn't ever before).

Instead read the hotplug script configuration during setup and use it
for the lifetime of the backend device.

The apparently more obvious fix of moving the transition to
state=Closed in netback_remove() to after the uevent does not work
because it is possible that we are already in state=Closed (in
reaction to the guest having disconnected as it shutdown). Being
already in Closed means the toolstack is at liberty to start tearing
down the xenstore directories. In principal it might be possible to
arrange to unregister the device sooner (e.g on transition to Closing)
such that xenstore would still be there but this state machine is
fragile and prone to anger...

A modern Xen system only relies on the hotplug uevent for driver
domains, when the backend is in the same domain as the toolstack it
will run the necessary setup/teardown directly in the correct sequence
wrt xenstore changes.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c |   33 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ struct backend_info {
 	enum xenbus_state frontend_state;
 	struct xenbus_watch hotplug_status_watch;
 	u8 have_hotplug_status_watch:1;
+
+	const char *hotplug_script;
 };
 
 static int connect_rings(struct backend_info *be, struct xenvif_queue *queue);
@@ -236,6 +238,7 @@ static int netback_remove(struct xenbus_
 		xenvif_free(be->vif);
 		be->vif = NULL;
 	}
+	kfree(be->hotplug_script);
 	kfree(be);
 	dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, NULL);
 	return 0;
@@ -253,6 +256,7 @@ static int netback_probe(struct xenbus_d
 	struct xenbus_transaction xbt;
 	int err;
 	int sg;
+	const char *script;
 	struct backend_info *be = kzalloc(sizeof(struct backend_info),
 					  GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!be) {
@@ -345,6 +349,15 @@ static int netback_probe(struct xenbus_d
 	if (err)
 		pr_debug("Error writing multi-queue-max-queues\n");
 
+	script = xenbus_read(XBT_NIL, dev->nodename, "script", NULL);
+	if (IS_ERR(script)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(script);
+		xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "reading script");
+		goto fail;
+	}
+
+	be->hotplug_script = script;
+
 	err = xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateInitWait);
 	if (err)
 		goto fail;
@@ -377,22 +390,14 @@ static int netback_uevent(struct xenbus_
 			  struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
 {
 	struct backend_info *be = dev_get_drvdata(&xdev->dev);
-	char *val;
 
-	val = xenbus_read(XBT_NIL, xdev->nodename, "script", NULL);
-	if (IS_ERR(val)) {
-		int err = PTR_ERR(val);
-		xenbus_dev_fatal(xdev, err, "reading script");
-		return err;
-	} else {
-		if (add_uevent_var(env, "script=%s", val)) {
-			kfree(val);
-			return -ENOMEM;
-		}
-		kfree(val);
-	}
+	if (!be)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (add_uevent_var(env, "script=%s", be->hotplug_script))
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	if (!be || !be->vif)
+	if (!be->vif)
 		return 0;
 
 	return add_uevent_var(env, "vif=%s", be->vif->dev->name);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Ian.Campbell@citrix.com are

queue-4.0/xen-netback-read-hotplug-script-once-at-start-of-day.patch