[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 5/7] virtio-serial: Don't clear ->have_data() pointer after unplug

[Juan Quintela]

Amit Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
> After a port unplug operation, the port->info->have_data() pointer was
> set to NULL.  The problem is, the ->info struct is shared by all ports,
> effectively disabling writes to other ports.
>
> Reported-by: juzhang <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/virtio-console.c |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/virtio-console.c b/hw/virtio-console.c
> index 4440784..be59558 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio-console.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio-console.c
> @@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ static int virtconsole_exitfn(VirtIOSerialPort *port)
>      VirtConsole *vcon = DO_UPCAST(VirtConsole, port, port);
>  
>      if (vcon->chr) {
> -        port->info->have_data = NULL;
>          qemu_chr_close(vcon->chr);
>      }

Discussed with Amit over irc, I think that we are missing setup of
have_data for non console devices, but that is a different bug that the
one being fixed here.

Later, Juan.