Otherwise the call to event_notifier_set() is a nop, which causes
the SLOF firmware on POWER to hang when booting from a virtio-scsi
device:

virtio_scsi_dataplane_start()
 virtio_scsi_vring_init()
  virtio_bus_set_host_notifier() <- assign == true
   event_notifier_init() <- active == 1
    event_notifier_set() <- fails right away if !e->initialized

Fixes: e34e47eb28c0 ("event_notifier: handle initialization failure better")
Cc: mlevi...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org>
---
 util/event_notifier-posix.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/util/event_notifier-posix.c b/util/event_notifier-posix.c
index 5b2110e86198..8307013c5df0 100644
--- a/util/event_notifier-posix.c
+++ b/util/event_notifier-posix.c
@@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ int event_notifier_init(EventNotifier *e, int active)
         e->rfd = fds[0];
         e->wfd = fds[1];
     }
+    e->initialized = true;
     if (active) {
         event_notifier_set(e);
     }
-    e->initialized = true;
     return 0;
 
 fail:
-- 
2.26.2


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