[PATCH v2 1/3] hvc/xen: fix event channel handling for secondary consoles

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Oct 21 03:15:27 AEDT 2023


From: David Woodhouse <dwmw at amazon.co.uk>

The xencons_connect_backend() function allocates a local interdomain
event channel with xenbus_alloc_evtchn(), then calls
bind_interdomain_evtchn_to_irq_lateeoi() to bind to that port# on the
*remote* domain.

That doesn't work very well:

(qemu) device_add xen-console,id=con1,chardev=pty0
[   44.323872] xenconsole console-1: 2 xenbus_dev_probe on device/console/1
[   44.323995] xenconsole: probe of console-1 failed with error -2

Fix it to use bind_evtchn_to_irq_lateeoi(), which does the right thing
by just binding that *local* event channel to an irq. The backend will
do the interdomain binding.

This didn't affect the primary console because the setup for that is
special — the toolstack allocates the guest event channel and the guest
discovers it with HVMOP_get_param.

Fixes: fe415186b4 ("xen/console: harden hvc_xen against event channel storms")
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw at amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
index 98764e740c07..f24e285b6441 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ static int xencons_connect_backend(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 	info->evtchn = evtchn;
-	irq = bind_interdomain_evtchn_to_irq_lateeoi(dev, evtchn);
+	irq = bind_evtchn_to_irq_lateeoi(evtchn);
 	if (irq < 0)
 		return irq;
 	info->irq = irq;
-- 
2.40.1



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