Subject: virtio: console: Fix crash when port is unplugged and blocked for write Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:24:40 +0530 From: Amit Shah When a program that has a virtio port opened and blocked for a write operation, a port hot-unplug event will later led to a crash when SIGTERM was sent to the program. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c index e3fb529..942a982 100644 --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c @@ -529,6 +529,10 @@ static bool will_write_block(struct port *port) { bool ret; + if (!port->guest_connected) { + /* Port got hot-unplugged. Let's exit. */ + return false; + } if (!port->host_connected) return true;