[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: fix connect hang in client mode

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Thu Jul 21 14:58:43 CEST 2016


On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 03:42:54PM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 21.07.2016 15:35, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 03:13:14PM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> What do you think of it?
> >>>
> >>> I found that we can't check connection status without select/poll
> >>> on it. 'getsockopt()' will return 0 with no errors if connection
> >>> is not still established just like if it was.
> >>> So, I think, the first version of this patch is the only
> >>> acceptable solution.
> >>
> >> Sorry, v2 is acceptable too, because it always calls 'connect()'.
> > 
> > So you have done the test that it works?
> 
> No, it's just theory. I don't know how to test this.
> 
> > I'm more curious to know
> > could your above case hit the getsockopt() code path, I mean, the
> > path that errno is set to EINPROGRESS or EISCONN?
> 
> As I already told, I don't sure that we're able to get EINPROGRESS
> on our AF_UNIX sockets.
> In v2 'getsockopt()' check is unnecessary.

We then have no reason to keep it?

	--yliu


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