Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932612Ab3DBSju (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:39:50 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:45192 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932106Ab3DBSjt (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:39:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:39:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20130402.143946.956982729576009415.davem@davemloft.net> To: grantr@vmware.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] VSOCK: Handle changes to the VMCI context ID. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1364841712-22810-1-git-send-email-grantr@vmware.com> References: <1364841712-22810-1-git-send-email-grantr@vmware.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [0.0.0.0]); Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:39:48 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 20 From: Reilly Grant Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 11:41:52 -0700 > The VMCI context ID of a virtual machine may change at any time. There > is a VMCI event which signals this but datagrams may be processed before > this is handled. It is therefore necessary to be flexible about the > destination context ID of any datagrams received. (It can be assumed to > be correct because it is provided by the hypervisor.) The context ID on > existing sockets should be updated to reflect how the hypervisor is > currently referring to the system. > > Signed-off-by: Reilly Grant > Acked-by: Andy King Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/