Re: [PATCH 01/10] vhost-user-blk: reconnect on any error during realize

[Raphael Norwitz]

As mst said, not for 6.2.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 06:33:45PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> vhost-user-blk realize only attempts to reconnect if the previous
> connection attempt failed on "a problem with the connection and not an
> error related to the content (which would fail again the same way in the
> next attempt)".
> 
> However this distinction is very subtle, and may be inadvertently broken
> if the code changes somewhere deep down the stack and a new error gets
> propagated up to here.
> 
> OTOH now that the number of reconnection attempts is limited it seems
> harmless to try reconnecting on any error.
> 
> So relax the condition of whether to retry connecting to check for any
> error.
> 
> This patch amends a527e312b5 "vhost-user-blk: Implement reconnection
> during realize".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rvkagan@yandex-team.ru>

Reviewed-by: Raphael Norwitz <raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com>

> ---
>  hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c b/hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c
> index ba13cb87e5..f9b17f6813 100644
> --- a/hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c
> +++ b/hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c
> @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ static void vhost_user_blk_device_realize(DeviceState 
> *dev, Error **errp)
>              *errp = NULL;
>          }
>          ret = vhost_user_blk_realize_connect(s, errp);
> -    } while (ret == -EPROTO && retries--);
> +    } while (ret < 0 && retries--);
>  
>      if (ret < 0) {
>          goto virtio_err;
> -- 
> 2.33.1
>