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virtio-rng: Remove false BUG for spurious callbacks 

The virtio-rng drivers checks for spurious callbacks. Since
callbacks can be implemented via shared interrupts (e.g. PCI) this
could lead to guest kernel oopses with lots of virtio devices.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christian Borntraeger 2009-04-23 16:42:59 +09:30 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9f5a691253
commit e5b89542ea
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
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@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ static void random_recv_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
{
int len;
/* We never get spurious callbacks. */
/* We can get spurious callbacks, e.g. shared IRQs + virtio_pci. */
if (!vq->vq_ops->get_buf(vq, &len))
BUG();
return;
data_left = len / sizeof(random_data[0]);
complete(&have_data);