[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] vhost: fix driver unregister for client mode

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Thu Jul 21 15:18:32 CEST 2016


On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 03:55:36PM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> Currently while calling of 'rte_vhost_driver_unregister()' connection
> to QEMU will not be closed. This leads to inability to register driver
> again and reconnect to same virtual machine.
> 
> This scenario is reproducible with OVS. While executing of the following
> command vhost port will be re-created (will be executed
> 'rte_vhost_driver_register()' followed by 'rte_vhost_driver_unregister()')
> network will be broken and QEMU possibly will crash:
> 
> 	ovs-vsctl set Interface vhost1 ofport_request=15
> 
> Fix this by closing all established connections on driver unregister and
> removing of pending connections from reconnection list.
> 
> Fixes: 64ab701c3d1e ("vhost: add vhost-user client mode")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com>
> ---
> 
> Version 3:
> 	* fixed leak of file descriptors by adding of
> 	  'close(reconn->fd)' to 'vhost_user_remove_reconnect()'
> 
> Version 2:
> 	* style fixes.

Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>

	--yliu


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