[PATCH RESEND 10/10] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Permit sending of packets without payload

[K. Y. Srinivasan]

The guest may have to send a completion packet back to the host.
To support this usage, permit sending a packet without a payload -
we would be only sending the descriptor in this case.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/hv/channel.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel.c b/drivers/hv/channel.c
index 603ce97..c4dcab0 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/channel.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c
@@ -601,6 +601,7 @@ int vmbus_sendpacket_ctl(struct vmbus_channel *channel, void *buffer,
 	u64 aligned_data = 0;
 	int ret;
 	bool signal = false;
+	int num_vecs = ((bufferlen != 0) ? 3 : 1);
 
 
 	/* Setup the descriptor */
@@ -618,7 +619,8 @@ int vmbus_sendpacket_ctl(struct vmbus_channel *channel, void *buffer,
 	bufferlist[2].iov_base = &aligned_data;
 	bufferlist[2].iov_len = (packetlen_aligned - packetlen);
 
-	ret = hv_ringbuffer_write(&channel->outbound, bufferlist, 3, &signal);
+	ret = hv_ringbuffer_write(&channel->outbound, bufferlist, num_vecs,
+				  &signal);
 
 	/*
 	 * Signalling the host is conditional on many factors:
-- 
1.7.4.1

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