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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] qemu-char: socket backend: disconnect on
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Denis V. Lunev |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] qemu-char: socket backend: disconnect on write error |
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Thu, 2 Feb 2017 17:07:28 +0300 |
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On 02/02/2017 04:18 PM, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> From: Anton Nefedov <address@hidden>
>
> Socket backend read handler should normally perform a disconnect, however
> the read handler may not get a chance to run if the frontend is not ready
> (qemu_chr_be_can_write() == 0).
>
> This means that in virtio-serial frontend case if
> - the host has disconnected (giving EPIPE on socket write)
> - and the guest has disconnected (-> frontend not ready -> backend
> will not read)
> - and there is still data (frontend->backend) to flush (has to be a really
> tricky timing but nevertheless, we have observed the case in production)
>
> This results in virtio-serial trying to flush this data continiously forming
> a busy loop.
>
> Solution: react on write error in the socket write handler.
> errno is not reliable after qio_channel_writev_full(), so we may not get
> the exact EPIPE, so disconnect on any error but QIO_CHANNEL_ERR_BLOCK which
> io_channel_send_full() converts to errno EAGAIN.
> We must not disconnect right away though, there still may be data to read
> (see 4bf1cb0).
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <address@hidden>
> CC: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> CC: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> CC: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
> ---
> Changes from v1:
> - we do not rely on EPIPE anynore. Socket should be closed on all errors
> except EAGAIN
>
> chardev/char-socket.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/chardev/char-socket.c b/chardev/char-socket.c
> index 4068dc5..e2137aa 100644
> --- a/chardev/char-socket.c
> +++ b/chardev/char-socket.c
> @@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ static gboolean tcp_chr_accept(QIOChannel *chan,
> GIOCondition cond,
> void *opaque);
>
> +static int tcp_chr_read_poll(void *opaque);
> +static void tcp_chr_disconnect(CharDriverState *chr);
> +
> /* Called with chr_write_lock held. */
> static int tcp_chr_write(Chardev *chr, const uint8_t *buf, int len)
> {
> @@ -114,6 +117,13 @@ static int tcp_chr_write(Chardev *chr, const uint8_t
> *buf, int len)
> s->write_msgfds_num = 0;
> }
>
> + if (ret < 0 && errno != EAGAIN) {
> + if (tcp_chr_read_poll(chr) <= 0) {
> + tcp_chr_disconnect(chr);
> + return len;
> + } /* else let the read handler finish it properly */
> + }
> +
> return ret;
> } else {
> /* XXX: indicate an error ? */
pls disregard. I am very sorry. This patch was made against all version
and will not compile.
Den