This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Cleanup vmbus_post_msg()
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-next branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release
during the merge window.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From fdeebcc62279119dbeafbc1a2e39e773839025fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:25:31 -0700
Subject: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Cleanup vmbus_post_msg()
Posting messages to the host can fail because of transient resource
related failures. Correctly deal with these failures and increase the
number of attempts to post the message before giving up.
In this version of the patch, I have normalized the error code to
Linux error code.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hv/connection.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hv/connection.c b/drivers/hv/connection.c
index ae22e3c1fc4c..e206619b946e 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/connection.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/connection.c
@@ -427,10 +427,21 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen)
* insufficient resources. Retry the operation a couple of
* times before giving up.
*/
- while (retries < 3) {
- ret = hv_post_message(conn_id, 1, buffer, buflen);
- if (ret != HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFERS)
+ while (retries < 10) {
+ ret = hv_post_message(conn_id, 1, buffer, buflen);
+
+ switch (ret) {
+ case HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFERS:
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ case -ENOMEM:
+ break;
+ case HV_STATUS_SUCCESS:
return ret;
+ default:
+ pr_err("hv_post_msg() failed; error code:%d\n", ret);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
retries++;
msleep(100);
}
--
2.1.0
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