The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 5c60300d68da32ca77f7f978039dc72bfc78b06b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 21:00:13 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] virtio_console: reset on out of memory
When out of memory and we can't add ctrl vq buffers,
probe fails. Unfortunately the error handling is
out of spec: it calls del_vqs without bothering
to reset the device first.
To fix, call the full cleanup function in this case.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index e8480fe2e1d8..21085515814f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -2090,6 +2090,7 @@ static int virtcons_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
spin_lock_init(&portdev->ports_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&portdev->ports);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&portdev->list);
virtio_device_ready(portdev->vdev);
@@ -2107,8 +2108,15 @@ static int virtcons_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
if (!nr_added_bufs) {
dev_err(&vdev->dev,
"Error allocating buffers for control queue\n");
- err = -ENOMEM;
- goto free_vqs;
+ /*
+ * The host might want to notify mgmt sw about device
+ * add failure.
+ */
+ __send_control_msg(portdev, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_BAD_ID,
+ VIRTIO_CONSOLE_DEVICE_READY, 0);
+ /* Device was functional: we need full cleanup. */
+ virtcons_remove(vdev);
+ return -ENOMEM;
}
} else {
/*
@@ -2139,11 +2147,6 @@ static int virtcons_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
return 0;
-free_vqs:
- /* The host might want to notify mgmt sw about device add failure */
- __send_control_msg(portdev, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_BAD_ID,
- VIRTIO_CONSOLE_DEVICE_READY, 0);
- remove_vqs(portdev);
free_chrdev:
unregister_chrdev(portdev->chr_major, "virtio-portsdev");
free: