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    net: delay freeing peer host device · a083a89d
    Michael S. Tsirkin authored
    
    
    With -netdev, virtio devices present offload
    features to guest, depending on the backend used.
    Thus, removing host netdev peer while guest is
    active leads to guest-visible inconsistency and/or crashes.
    
    As a solution, while guest (NIC) peer device exists,
    we prevent the host peer from being deleted.
    This patch does this by adding peer_deleted flag in nic state:
    if host device is going away while guest device
    is around, set this flag and keep a shell of
    the host device around for as long as guest device exists.
    
    The link is put down so all packets will get discarded.
    
    At the moment, management can detect that device deletion
    is delayed by doing info net. As a next step, we shall add
    commands that control hotplug/unplug without
    removing the device, and an event to report that
    guest has responded to the hotplug event.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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