When a port is hot-unplugged while an app was blocked on a read() call,
the call was unblocked but would not get an error returned.
Return -ENODEV to ensure the app knows the port has gone away.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <redacted>
---
drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index c8a5678..7fa3c26 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -579,6 +579,9 @@ static ssize_t port_fops_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
}
+ /* Port got hot-unplugged. */
+ if (!port->guest_connected)
+ return -ENODEV;
/*
* We could've received a disconnection message while we were
* waiting for more data.
--
1.7.2.2