In the case the user-space daemon crashes, hangs or is killed, we need to down the semaphore, otherwise, after the daemon starts next time, the obsolete data in fcopy_transaction.message or fcopy_transaction.fcopy_msg will be used immediately. Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c b/drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c index 23b2ce2..177122a 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c +++ b/drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c @@ -86,6 +86,15 @@ static void fcopy_work_func(struct work_struct *dummy) * process the pending transaction. */ fcopy_respond_to_host(HV_E_FAIL); + + /* In the case the user-space daemon crashes, hangs or is killed, we + * need to down the semaphore, otherwise, after the daemon starts next + * time, the obsolete data in fcopy_transaction.message or + * fcopy_transaction.fcopy_msg will be used immediately. + */ + if (down_trylock(&fcopy_transaction.read_sema)) + pr_debug("FCP: failed to acquire the semaphore\n"); + } static int fcopy_handle_handshake(u32 version) -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel