The patch below does not apply to the 3.16-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.
thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 3856e548372513665670ca5db60d9a74b970fe0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amos Kong <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:20:39 +0930 Subject: [PATCH] virtio-rng: fix stuck of hot-unplugging busy device When we try to hot-remove a busy virtio-rng device from QEMU monitor, the device can't be hot-removed. Because virtio-rng driver hangs at wait_for_completion_killable(). This patch exits the waiting by completing have_data completion before unregistering, resets data_avail to avoid the hwrng core use wrong buffer bytes. Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c index 2e3139eda93b..849b22877196 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ static void remove_common(struct virtio_device *vdev) { struct virtrng_info *vi = vdev->priv; + vi->data_avail = 0; + complete(&vi->have_data); vdev->config->reset(vdev); vi->busy = false; if (vi->hwrng_register_done) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
