[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "xen: close evtchn port if binding to irq fails" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Feb 26 16:14:50 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    xen: close evtchn port if binding to irq fails

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 897c725bfabd44a856f7777fbe894ee253b44798 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2 at citrix.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:57:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] xen: close evtchn port if binding to irq fails

commit e7e44e444876478d50630f57b0c31d29f6725020 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2 at citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/xen/evtchn.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/evtchn.c b/drivers/xen/evtchn.c
index b1f60a0..b2db77e 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/evtchn.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/evtchn.c
@@ -269,6 +269,14 @@ static int evtchn_bind_to_user(struct per_user_data *u, int port)
 				       u->name, (void *)(unsigned long)port);
 	if (rc >= 0)
 		rc = evtchn_make_refcounted(port);
+	else {
+		/* bind failed, should close the port now */
+		struct evtchn_close close;
+		close.port = port;
+		if (HYPERVISOR_event_channel_op(EVTCHNOP_close, &close) != 0)
+			BUG();
+		set_port_user(port, NULL);
+	}

 	return rc;
 }
@@ -277,6 +285,8 @@ static void evtchn_unbind_from_user(struct per_user_data *u, int port)
 {
 	int irq = irq_from_evtchn(port);

+	BUG_ON(irq < 0);
+
 	unbind_from_irqhandler(irq, (void *)(unsigned long)port);

 	set_port_user(port, NULL);
--
1.8.1.2





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