Re: [PATCH] xenbus: advertize control feature flags

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Mon Oct 10 2016 - 05:18:25 EST


On 10/10/16 09:43, Paul Durrant wrote:
> The Xen docs specify several flags which a guest can set to advertize
> which values of the xenstore control/shutdown key it will recognize.
> This patch adds code to write all the relevant feature-flag keys.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/xen/manage.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/manage.c b/drivers/xen/manage.c
> index e12bd36..86cf57c 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/manage.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/manage.c

> @@ -309,8 +311,31 @@ static struct notifier_block xen_reboot_nb = {
>
> static int setup_shutdown_watcher(void)
> {
> + static struct shutdown_handler *handler;
> int err;
>
> + for (handler = &shutdown_handlers[0]; handler->command; handler++) {
> + const char *fmt = "feature-%s";
> + int size;
> + char *node;
> +
> + if (!handler->flag)
> + continue;
> +
> + size = snprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, handler->command);
> +
> + node = kmalloc(++size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!node) {
> + pr_err("Failed to allocate feature flag\n");
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +
> + (void) snprintf(node, size, fmt, handler->command);

One other nit: please us kasprintf() instead of open coding it.


Juergen