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Date:   Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:39:30 +0200
From:   Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc:     netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
        Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
        Adit Ranadive <aditr@vmware.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] vhost/vsock: don't allow half-closed socket in
 the host
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:26:34AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 03:07:58PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > vmci_transport never allowed half-closed socket on the host side.
> > In order to provide the same behaviour, we changed the
> > vhost_transport_stream_has_data() to return 0 (no data available)
> > if the peer (guest) closed the connection.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> 
> I don't think we should copy bugs like this.
> Applications don't actually depend on this VMCI limitation, in fact
> it looks like a working application can get broken by this.
> 
> So this looks like a userspace visible ABI change
> which we can't really do.
> 
> If it turns out some application cares, it can always
> fully close the connection. Or add an ioctl so the application
> can find out whether half close works.
> 

I got your point.
Discard this patch.

Thanks,
Stefano