virtio: console: return -ENODEV on all read operations after unplug
authorAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:53:21 +0000 (14:23 +0930)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:57:17 +0000 (01:57 +0100)
commit4159ea99829958762784766f4522f99c4c1d377a
tree195c65e2e9406dc4864c9b5b3dfb84245181b7e3
parent176e04b0542056d7dd9b765145958724d836a0b1
virtio: console: return -ENODEV on all read operations after unplug

commit 96f97a83910cdb9d89d127c5ee523f8fc040a804 upstream.

If a port gets unplugged while a user is blocked on read(), -ENODEV is
returned.  However, subsequent read()s returned 0, indicating there's no
host-side connection (but not indicating the device went away).

This also happened when a port was unplugged and the user didn't have
any blocking operation pending.  If the user didn't monitor the SIGIO
signal, they won't have a chance to find out if the port went away.

Fix by returning -ENODEV on all read()s after the port gets unplugged.
write() already behaves this way.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/char/virtio_console.c