Explain in a comment why there's no need to reference-count the portdev struct: when a device is yanked out, we can't do anything more with it anyway so just give up doing anything more with the data or the vqs and exit cleanly.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <[email protected]> --- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c index 1e00221..793817b 100644 --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c @@ -1723,6 +1723,14 @@ static void virtcons_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev) unregister_chrdev(portdev->chr_major, "virtio-portsdev"); + /* + * When yanking out a device, we immediately lose the + * (device-side) queues. So there's no point in keeping the + * guest side around till we drop our final reference. This + * also means that any ports which are in an open state will + * have to just stop using the port, as the vqs are going + * away. + */ if (use_multiport(portdev)) { struct port_buffer *buf; unsigned int len; -- 1.7.2.2 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
