xen: netback: read hotplug script once at start of day.

When we come to tear things down in netback_remove() and generate the
uevent it is possible that the xenstore directory has already been
remov

xen: netback: read hotplug script once at start of day.

When we come to tear things down in netback_remove() and generate the
uevent it is possible that the xenstore directory has already been
removed (details below).

In such cases netback_uevent() won't be able to read the hotplug
script and will write a xenstore error node.

A recent change to the hypervisor exposed this race such that we now
sometimes lose it (where apparently we didn't ever before).

Instead read the hotplug script configuration during setup and use it
for the lifetime of the backend device.

The apparently more obvious fix of moving the transition to
state=Closed in netback_remove() to after the uevent does not work
because it is possible that we are already in state=Closed (in
reaction to the guest having disconnected as it shutdown). Being
already in Closed means the toolstack is at liberty to start tearing
down the xenstore directories. In principal it might be possible to
arrange to unregister the device sooner (e.g on transition to Closing)
such that xenstore would still be there but this state machine is
fragile and prone to anger...

A modern Xen system only relies on the hotplug uevent for driver
domains, when the backend is in the same domain as the toolstack it
will run the necessary setup/teardown directly in the correct sequence
wrt xenstore changes.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen/netback: Properly initialize credit_bytes

Commit e9ce7cb6b107 ("xen-netback: Factor queue-specific data into queue
struct") introduced a regression when moving queue-specific data into
the queue

xen/netback: Properly initialize credit_bytes

Commit e9ce7cb6b107 ("xen-netback: Factor queue-specific data into queue
struct") introduced a regression when moving queue-specific data into
the queue struct by failing to set the credit_bytes field. This
prevented bandwidth limiting from working. Initialize the field as it
was done before multiqueue support was added.

Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: making the bandwidth limiter runtime settable

With the current netback, the bandwidth limiter's parameters are only
settable during vif setup time. This patch register a watch on them,

xen-netback: making the bandwidth limiter runtime settable

With the current netback, the bandwidth limiter's parameters are only
settable during vif setup time. This patch register a watch on them, and
thus makes them runtime changeable.

When the watch fires, the timer is reset. The timer's mutex is used for
fencing the change.

Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Imre Palik <imrep@amazon.de>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: fixing the propagation of the transmit shaper timeout

Since e9ce7cb6b107 ("xen-netback: Factor queue-specific data into queue struct"),
the transimt shaper timeout is always set to 0.

xen-netback: fixing the propagation of the transmit shaper timeout

Since e9ce7cb6b107 ("xen-netback: Factor queue-specific data into queue struct"),
the transimt shaper timeout is always set to 0. The value the user sets via
xenbus is never propagated to the transmit shaper.

This patch fixes the issue.

Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Imre Palik <imrep@amazon.de>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: support frontends without feature-rx-notify again

Commit bc96f648df1bbc2729abbb84513cf4f64273a1f1 (xen-netback: make
feature-rx-notify mandatory) incorrectly assumed that there were no

xen-netback: support frontends without feature-rx-notify again

Commit bc96f648df1bbc2729abbb84513cf4f64273a1f1 (xen-netback: make
feature-rx-notify mandatory) incorrectly assumed that there were no
frontends in use that did not support this feature. But the frontend
driver in MiniOS does not and since this is used by (qemu) stubdoms,
these stopped working.

Netback sort of works as-is in this mode except:

- If there are no Rx requests and the internal Rx queue fills, only
the drain timeout will wake the thread. The default drain timeout
of 10 s would give unacceptable pauses.

- If an Rx stall was detected and the internal Rx queue is drained,
then the Rx thread would never wake.

Handle these two cases (when feature-rx-notify is disabled) by:

- Reducing the drain timeout to 30 ms.

- Disabling Rx stall detection.

Reported-by: John <jw@nuclearfallout.net>
Tested-by: John <jw@nuclearfallout.net>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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netback: don't store invalid vif pointer

When xenvif_alloc() fails, it returns a non-NULL error indicator. To
avoid eventual races, we shouldn't store that into struct backend_info
as readers of it

netback: don't store invalid vif pointer

When xenvif_alloc() fails, it returns a non-NULL error indicator. To
avoid eventual races, we shouldn't store that into struct backend_info
as readers of it only check for NULL.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: do not report success if backend_create_xenvif() fails

If xenvif_alloc() or xenbus_scanf() fail in backend_create_xenvif(),
xenbus is left in offline mode but netback_probe() reports su

xen-netback: do not report success if backend_create_xenvif() fails

If xenvif_alloc() or xenbus_scanf() fail in backend_create_xenvif(),
xenbus is left in offline mode but netback_probe() reports success.

The patch implements propagation of error code for backend_create_xenvif().

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: reintroduce guest Rx stall detection

If a frontend not receiving packets it is useful to detect this and
turn off the carrier so packets are dropped early instead of being
queued and dr

xen-netback: reintroduce guest Rx stall detection

If a frontend not receiving packets it is useful to detect this and
turn off the carrier so packets are dropped early instead of being
queued and drained when they expire.

A to-guest queue is stalled if it doesn't have enough free slots for a
an extended period of time (default 60 s).

If at least one queue is stalled, the carrier is turned off (in the
expectation that the other queues will soon stall as well). The
carrier is only turned on once all queues are ready.

When the frontend connects, all the queues start in the stalled state
and only become ready once the frontend queues enough Rx requests.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: fix unlimited guest Rx internal queue and carrier flapping

Netback needs to discard old to-guest skb's (guest Rx queue drain) and
it needs detect guest Rx stalls (to disable the carrier

xen-netback: fix unlimited guest Rx internal queue and carrier flapping

Netback needs to discard old to-guest skb's (guest Rx queue drain) and
it needs detect guest Rx stalls (to disable the carrier so packets are
discarded earlier), but the current implementation is very broken.

1. The check in hard_start_xmit of the slot availability did not
consider the number of packets that were already in the guest Rx
queue. This could allow the queue to grow without bound.

The guest stops consuming packets and the ring was allowed to fill
leaving S slot free. Netback queues a packet requiring more than S
slots (ensuring that the ring stays with S slots free). Netback
queue indefinately packets provided that then require S or fewer
slots.

2. The Rx stall detection is not triggered in this case since the
(host) Tx queue is not stopped.

3. If the Tx queue is stopped and a guest Rx interrupt occurs, netback
will consider this an Rx purge event which may result in it taking
the carrier down unnecessarily. It also considers a queue with
only 1 slot free as unstalled (even though the next packet might
not fit in this).

The internal guest Rx queue is limited by a byte length (to 512 Kib,
enough for half the ring). The (host) Tx queue is stopped and started
based on this limit. This sets an upper bound on the amount of memory
used by packets on the internal queue.

This allows the estimatation of the number of slots for an skb to be
removed (it wasn't a very good estimate anyway). Instead, the guest
Rx thread just waits for enough free slots for a maximum sized packet.

skbs queued on the internal queue have an 'expires' time (set to the
current time plus the drain timeout). The guest Rx thread will detect
when the skb at the head of the queue has expired and discard expired
skbs. This sets a clear upper bound on the length of time an skb can
be queued for. For a guest being destroyed the maximum time needed to
wait for all the packets it sent to be dropped is still the drain
timeout (10 s) since it will not be sending new packets.

Rx stall detection is reintroduced in a later commit.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: make feature-rx-notify mandatory

Frontends that do not provide feature-rx-notify may stall because
netback depends on the notification from frontend to wake the guest Rx
thread (even if

xen-netback: make feature-rx-notify mandatory

Frontends that do not provide feature-rx-notify may stall because
netback depends on the notification from frontend to wake the guest Rx
thread (even if can_queue is false).

This could be fixed but feature-rx-notify was introduced in 2006 and I
am not aware of any frontends that do not implement this.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen: remove DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro

The DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro looks a bit weird and causes sparse
errors.

Replace the uses with standard structure definitions instead. This is
similar

xen: remove DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro

The DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro looks a bit weird and causes sparse
errors.

Replace the uses with standard structure definitions instead. This is
similar to pci and usb device registration.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>

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xen-netback: fix debugfs entry creation

The original code is bogus. The function gets called in a loop which
leaks entries created in previous rounds.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
C

xen-netback: fix debugfs entry creation

The original code is bogus. The function gets called in a loop which
leaks entries created in previous rounds.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: fix debugfs write length check

Enlarge buffer size and check input length properly, so that we don't
misuse -ENOSPC.

Note that command like "kickXXXX" is still allowed, that's one patc

xen-netback: fix debugfs write length check

Enlarge buffer size and check input length properly, so that we don't
misuse -ENOSPC.

Note that command like "kickXXXX" is still allowed, that's one patch for
another day if we really want to be very strict on this.

Reported-by: SeeChen Ng <seechen81@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: Adding debugfs "io_ring_qX" files

This patch adds debugfs capabilities to netback. There used to be a similar
patch floating around for classic kernel, but it used procfs. It is based o

xen-netback: Adding debugfs "io_ring_qX" files

This patch adds debugfs capabilities to netback. There used to be a similar
patch floating around for classic kernel, but it used procfs. It is based on a
very similar blkback patch.
It creates xen-netback/[vifname]/io_ring_q[queueno] files, reading them output
various ring variables etc. Writing "kick" into it imitates an interrupt
happened, it can be useful to check whether the ring is just stalled due to a
missed interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: bookkeep number of active queues in our own module

The original code uses netdev->real_num_tx_queues to bookkeep number of
queues and invokes netif_set_real_num_tx_queues to set the num

xen-netback: bookkeep number of active queues in our own module

The original code uses netdev->real_num_tx_queues to bookkeep number of
queues and invokes netif_set_real_num_tx_queues to set the number of
queues. However, netif_set_real_num_tx_queues doesn't allow
real_num_tx_queues to be smaller than 1, which means setting the number
to 0 will not work and real_num_tx_queues is untouched.

This is bogus when xenvif_free is invoked before any number of queues is
allocated. That function needs to iterate through all queues to free
resources. Using the wrong number of queues results in NULL pointer
dereference.

So we bookkeep the number of queues in xen-netback to solve this
problem. This fixes a regression introduced by multiqueue patchset in
3.16-rc1.

There's another bug in original code that the real number of RX queues
is never set. In current Xen multiqueue design, the number of TX queues
and RX queues are in fact the same. We need to set the numbers of TX and
RX queues to the same value.

Also remove xenvif_select_queue and leave queue selection to core
driver, as suggested by David Miller.

Reported-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
CC: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: Add support for multiple queues

Builds on the refactoring of the previous patch to implement multiple
queues between xen-netfront and xen-netback.

Writes the maximum supported number o

xen-netback: Add support for multiple queues

Builds on the refactoring of the previous patch to implement multiple
queues between xen-netfront and xen-netback.

Writes the maximum supported number of queues into XenStore, and reads
the values written by the frontend to determine how many queues to use.

Ring references and event channels are read from XenStore on a per-queue
basis and rings are connected accordingly.

Also adds code to handle the cleanup of any already initialised queues
if the initialisation of a subsequent queue fails.

Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Bennieston <andrew.bennieston@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: Factor queue-specific data into queue struct

In preparation for multi-queue support in xen-netback, move the
queue-specific data from struct xenvif into struct xenvif_queue, and
update

xen-netback: Factor queue-specific data into queue struct

In preparation for multi-queue support in xen-netback, move the
queue-specific data from struct xenvif into struct xenvif_queue, and
update the rest of the code to use this.

Also adds loops over queues where appropriate, even though only one is
configured at this point, and uses alloc_netdev_mq() and the
corresponding multi-queue netif wake/start/stop functions in preparation
for multiple active queues.

Finally, implements a trivial queue selection function suitable for
ndo_select_queue, which simply returns 0 for a single queue and uses
skb_get_hash() to compute the queue index otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Bennieston <andrew.bennieston@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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drivers/net/*: Fix FSF address in file headers

Several files refer to an old address for the Free Software Foundation
in the file header comment. Resolve by replacing the address with
the URL <http

drivers/net/*: Fix FSF address in file headers

Several files refer to an old address for the Free Software Foundation
in the file header comment. Resolve by replacing the address with
the URL <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> so that we do not have to keep
updating the header comments anytime the address changes.

CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
CC: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: enable IPv6 TCP GSO to the guest

This patch adds code to handle SKB_GSO_TCPV6 skbs and construct appropriate
extra or prefix segments to pass the large packet to the frontend. New
xenst

xen-netback: enable IPv6 TCP GSO to the guest

This patch adds code to handle SKB_GSO_TCPV6 skbs and construct appropriate
extra or prefix segments to pass the large packet to the frontend. New
xenstore flags, feature-gso-tcpv6 and feature-gso-tcpv6-prefix, are sampled
to determine if the frontend is capable of handling such packets.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: handle IPv6 TCP GSO packets from the guest

This patch adds a xenstore feature flag, festure-gso-tcpv6, to advertise
that netback can handle IPv6 TCP GSO packets. It creates SKB_GSO_TCPV

xen-netback: handle IPv6 TCP GSO packets from the guest

This patch adds a xenstore feature flag, festure-gso-tcpv6, to advertise
that netback can handle IPv6 TCP GSO packets. It creates SKB_GSO_TCPV6 skbs
if the frontend passes an extra segment with the new type
XEN_NETIF_GSO_TYPE_TCPV6 added to netif.h.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: add support for IPv6 checksum offload from guest

For performance of VM to VM traffic on a single host it is better to avoid
calculation of TCP/UDP checksum in the sending frontend. To a

xen-netback: add support for IPv6 checksum offload from guest

For performance of VM to VM traffic on a single host it is better to avoid
calculation of TCP/UDP checksum in the sending frontend. To allow this this
patch adds the code necessary to set up partial checksum for IPv6 packets
and xenstore flag feature-ipv6-csum-offload to advertise that fact to
frontends.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: add support for IPv6 checksum offload to guest

Check xenstore flag feature-ipv6-csum-offload to determine if a
guest is happy to accept IPv6 packets with only partial checksum.

Signed-

xen-netback: add support for IPv6 checksum offload to guest

Check xenstore flag feature-ipv6-csum-offload to determine if a
guest is happy to accept IPv6 packets with only partial checksum.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: transition to CLOSED when removing a VIF

If a guest is destroyed without transitioning its frontend to CLOSED,
the domain becomes a zombie as netback was not grant unmapping the
shared

xen-netback: transition to CLOSED when removing a VIF

If a guest is destroyed without transitioning its frontend to CLOSED,
the domain becomes a zombie as netback was not grant unmapping the
shared rings.

When removing a VIF, transition the backend to CLOSED so the VIF is
disconnected if necessary (which will unmap the shared rings etc).

This fixes a regression introduced by
279f438e36c0a70b23b86d2090aeec50155034a9 (xen-netback: Don't destroy
the netdev until the vif is shut down).

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: Handle backend state transitions in a more robust way

When the frontend state changes netback now specifies its desired state to
a new function, set_backend_state(), which transitions t

xen-netback: Handle backend state transitions in a more robust way

When the frontend state changes netback now specifies its desired state to
a new function, set_backend_state(), which transitions through any
necessary intermediate states.
This fixes an issue observed with some old Windows frontend drivers where
they failed to transition through the Closing state and netback would not
behave correctly.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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xen-netback: Don't destroy the netdev until the vif is shut down

Without this patch, if a frontend cycles through states Closing
and Closed (which Windows frontends need to do) then the netdev
will

xen-netback: Don't destroy the netdev until the vif is shut down

Without this patch, if a frontend cycles through states Closing
and Closed (which Windows frontends need to do) then the netdev
will be destroyed and requires re-invocation of hotplug scripts
to restore state before the frontend can move to Connected. Thus
when udev is not in use the backend gets stuck in InitWait.

With this patch, the netdev is left alone whilst the backend is
still online and is only de-registered and freed just prior to
destroying the vif (which is also nicely symmetrical with the
netdev allocation and registration being done during probe) so
no re-invocation of hotplug scripts is required.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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