@@ -562,6 +562,10 @@ static int vmbus_match(struct device *device, struct device_driver *driver)
struct hv_driver *drv = drv_to_hv_drv(driver);
struct hv_device *hv_dev = device_to_hv_device(device);
+ /* The hv_sock driver handles all hv_sock offers. */
+ if (is_hvsock_channel(hv_dev->channel))
+ return drv->hvsock;
+
if (hv_vmbus_get_id(drv->id_table, &hv_dev->dev_type))
return 1;
@@ -970,6 +970,20 @@ extern void vmbus_ontimer(unsigned long data);
struct hv_driver {
const char *name;
+ /*
+ * A hvsock offer, which has a VMBUS_CHANNEL_TLNPI_PROVIDER_OFFER
+ * channel flag, actually doesn't mean a synthetic device because the
+ * offer's if_type/if_instance can change for every new hvsock
+ * connection.
+ *
+ * However, to facilitate the notification of new-offer/rescind-offer
+ * from vmbus driver to hvsock driver, we can handle hvsock offer as
+ * a special vmbus device, and hence we need the below flag to
+ * indicate if the driver is the hvsock driver or not: we need to
+ * specially treat the hvosck offer & driver in vmbus_match().
+ */
+ bool hvsock;
+
/* the device type supported by this driver */
uuid_le dev_type;
const struct hv_vmbus_device_id *id_table;
Only the coming hv_sock driver has a "true" value for this flag. We treat the hvsock offers/channels as special VMBus devices. Since the hv_sock driver handles all the hvsock offers/channels, we need to tweak vmbus_match() for hv_sock driver, so we introduce this flag. Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> --- drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 4 ++++ include/linux/hyperv.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)