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virtio: console: return -ENODEV on all read operations after unplug
authorAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:53:21 +0000 (14:23 +0930)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 05:55:17 +0000 (22:55 -0700)
commit1336e0d81c7ea5128f87993907aaff3db71bf973
treedc7db7247bdc4a32ec64db977f7a40201552e129
parent7ba6337874c92f15212065b120fa70de573c56ed
virtio: console: return -ENODEV on all read operations after unplug

commit 96f97a83910cdb9d89d127c5ee523f8fc040a804 upstream.

If a port gets unplugged while a user is blocked on read(), -ENODEV is
returned.  However, subsequent read()s returned 0, indicating there's no
host-side connection (but not indicating the device went away).

This also happened when a port was unplugged and the user didn't have
any blocking operation pending.  If the user didn't monitor the SIGIO
signal, they won't have a chance to find out if the port went away.

Fix by returning -ENODEV on all read()s after the port gets unplugged.
write() already behaves this way.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/virtio_console.c