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xen-blkfront: don't call talk_to_blkback when already connected to blkback
authorBob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Tue, 7 Jun 2016 14:43:15 +0000 (10:43 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:54:44 +0000 (12:54 +0200)
commit2e9aedc4a304dbb2fb99b77528ace3f7e9f6c71e
treebdcb088fc837624a5ca9725863b9bbb982e1ef57
parent1d8d6ed641f6ead2397db38f0a038a40d8483151
xen-blkfront: don't call talk_to_blkback when already connected to blkback

commit efd1535270c1deb0487527bf0c3c827301a69c93 upstream.

Sometimes blkfront may twice receive blkback_changed() notification
(XenbusStateConnected) after migration, which will cause
talk_to_blkback() to be called twice too and confuse xen-blkback.

The flow is as follow:
   blkfront                                        blkback
blkfront_resume()
 > talk_to_blkback()
  > Set blkfront to XenbusStateInitialised
                                                front changed()
                                                 > Connect()
                                                  > Set blkback to XenbusStateConnected

blkback_changed()
 > Skip talk_to_blkback()
   because frontstate == XenbusStateInitialised
 > blkfront_connect()
  > Set blkfront to XenbusStateConnected

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And here we get another XenbusStateConnected notification leading
to:
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blkback_changed()
 > because now frontstate != XenbusStateInitialised
   talk_to_blkback() is also called again
  > blkfront state changed from
  XenbusStateConnected to XenbusStateInitialised
    (Which is not correct!)

front_changed():
                                                 > Do nothing because blkback
                                                   already in XenbusStateConnected

Now blkback is in XenbusStateConnected but blkfront is still
in XenbusStateInitialised - leading to no disks.

Poking of the XenbusStateConnected state is allowed (to deal with
block disk change) and has to be dealt with. The most likely
cause of this bug are custom udev scripts hooking up the disks
and then validating the size.

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c