A guest can cause the backend driver to leak a kernel thread. Such
leaked threads hold references to the device, whichmakes the device
impossible to tear down. If shut down, the guest remains a zombie
domain, the xenwatch process hangs, and most xm commands will stop
working.
This patch tries to do the following for blkback:
- identify/extract idempotent teardown operations,
- add/move the invocation of said teardown operation
right before we're about to allocate new resources in the
Connected states.
[ linux-2.6.18-xen.hg 59f097ef181b ]
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Keir Fraser
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