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-rw-r--r--drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index ca13df854639..6ba8891e8efe 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -2485,10 +2485,23 @@ static void blkback_changed(struct xenbus_device *dev,
break;
case XenbusStateConnected:
- if (dev->state != XenbusStateInitialised) {
+ /*
+ * talk_to_blkback sets state to XenbusStateInitialised
+ * and blkfront_connect sets it to XenbusStateConnected
+ * (if connection went OK).
+ *
+ * If the backend (or toolstack) decides to poke at backend
+ * state (and re-trigger the watch by setting the state repeatedly
+ * to XenbusStateConnected (4)) we need to deal with this.
+ * This is allowed as this is used to communicate to the guest
+ * that the size of disk has changed!
+ */
+ if ((dev->state != XenbusStateInitialised) &&
+ (dev->state != XenbusStateConnected)) {
if (talk_to_blkback(dev, info))
break;
}
+
blkfront_connect(info);
break;