[PATCH RESEND 11/27] Drivers: hv: vss: run only on supported host versions

K. Y. Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Tue Dec 15 00:01:42 UTC 2015


From: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>

The Backup integration service on WS2012 has appearently trouble to
negotiate with a guest which does not support the provided util version.
Currently the VSS driver supports only version 5/0. A WS2012 offers only
version 1/x and 3/x, and vmbus_prep_negotiate_resp correctly returns an
empty icframe_vercnt/icmsg_vercnt. But the host ignores that and
continues to send ICMSGTYPE_NEGOTIATE messages. The result are weird
errors during boot and general misbehaviour.

Check the Windows version to work around the host bug, skip hv_vss_init
on WS2012 and older.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c b/drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c
index a548ae4..81882d4 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c
@@ -331,6 +331,11 @@ static void vss_on_reset(void)
 int
 hv_vss_init(struct hv_util_service *srv)
 {
+	if (vmbus_proto_version < VERSION_WIN8_1) {
+		pr_warn("Integration service 'Backup (volume snapshot)'"
+			" not supported on this host version.\n");
+		return -ENOTSUPP;
+	}
 	recv_buffer = srv->recv_buffer;
 
 	/*
-- 
1.7.4.1



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