libxl: force netback to wait for hotplug execution before connecting

By writing an empty "hotplug-status" xenstore node in the backend path
libxl can force Linux netback to wait for hotplug script execution
before proceeding to the 'connected' state.

This is required so that netback doesn't skip state 2 (InitWait) and
thus blocks libxl waiting for such state in order to launch the
hotplug script (see libxl__wait_device_connection).

Reported-by: James Dingwall <james-xen@dingwall.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Tested-by: James Dingwall <james-xen@dingwall.me.uk>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Tested-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
master commit: 0bdc43c8dec993258e930b34855853c22b917519
master date: 2022-01-27 13:51:19 +0100

diff --git a/tools/libs/light/libxl_nic.c b/tools/libs/light/libxl_nic.c
index 0b45469dca1c14df9f4305394e53438127610e05..0b9e70c9d13da0c8f0c7974b441ed9f4d659b2a5 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/libs/light/libxl_nic.c
+++ b/tools/libs/light/libxl_nic.c
@@ -248,6 +248,13 @@ static int libxl__set_xenstore_nic(libxl__gc *gc, uint32_t domid,
     flexarray_append(ro_front, "mtu");
     flexarray_append(ro_front, GCSPRINTF("%u", nic->mtu));
 
+    /*
+     * Force backend to wait for hotplug script execution before switching to
+     * connected state.
+     */
+    flexarray_append(back, "hotplug-status");
+    flexarray_append(back, "");
+
     return 0;
 }