Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spice-qemu-char: Generate chardev open/close events (v3)

[Alon Levy]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:40:55AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Define a state callback and make that generate chardev open/close events when
> called by the spice-server. Note the code ignores these events for a spicevmc
> with a subtypem of vdagent, this subtype specific knowledge is undesirable,
> but unavoidable, see:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2011-July/004837.html
> 
> Changes in v2:
> -Only ignore the state callback for spicevmc chardevs with a subtype of
>  vdagent, instead of only allowing them for a subtype of usbredir
> 
> Changes in v3:
> -This version actually compiles, sorry about that!
> 

ACK.

Another option would be to not call the state callback for the vdagent
subtype from spice-server, because like you say it ignores the continued
communication between the agent and the server. Then you could remove
the subtype check.

> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <address@hidden>
> ---
>  spice-qemu-char.c |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/spice-qemu-char.c b/spice-qemu-char.c
> index ce75e91..a472f7e 100644
> --- a/spice-qemu-char.c
> +++ b/spice-qemu-char.c
> @@ -89,11 +89,48 @@ static int vmc_read(SpiceCharDeviceInstance *sin, uint8_t 
> *buf, int len)
>      return bytes;
>  }
>  
> +static void vmc_state(SpiceCharDeviceInstance *sin, int connected)
> +{
> +    SpiceCharDriver *scd = container_of(sin, SpiceCharDriver, sin);
> +    int event;
> +
> +    /*
> +     * spice-server calls the state callback for the agent channel when the
> +     * spice client connects / disconnects. Given that not the client but
> +     * the server is doing the parsing of the messages this is wrong as the
> +     * server is still listening. Worse, this causes the parser in the server
> +     * to go out of sync, so we ignore state calls for subtype vdagent
> +     * spicevmc chardevs. For the full story see:
> +     * 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2011-July/004837.html
> +     */
> +    if (strcmp(sin->subtype, "vdagent") == 0) {
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    if ((scd->chr->opened && connected) ||
> +        (!scd->chr->opened && !connected)) {
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (connected) {
> +        scd->chr->opened = 1;
> +        event = CHR_EVENT_OPENED;
> +    } else {
> +        scd->chr->opened = 0;
> +        event = CHR_EVENT_CLOSED;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (scd->chr->chr_event) {
> +        scd->chr->chr_event(scd->chr->handler_opaque, event);
> +    }
> +}
> +
>  static SpiceCharDeviceInterface vmc_interface = {
>      .base.type          = SPICE_INTERFACE_CHAR_DEVICE,
>      .base.description   = "spice virtual channel char device",
>      .base.major_version = SPICE_INTERFACE_CHAR_DEVICE_MAJOR,
>      .base.minor_version = SPICE_INTERFACE_CHAR_DEVICE_MINOR,
> +    .state              = vmc_state,
>      .write              = vmc_write,
>      .read               = vmc_read,
>  };
> @@ -222,7 +259,10 @@ CharDriverState *qemu_chr_open_spice(QemuOpts *opts)
>      chr->chr_guest_close = spice_chr_guest_close;
>      s->unblock_timer = qemu_new_timer_ms(vm_clock, spice_chr_unblock, s);
>  
> -    qemu_chr_generic_open(chr);
> +    /* See comment in vmc_state() */
> +    if (strcmp(subtype, "vdagent") == 0) {
> +        qemu_chr_generic_open(chr);
> +    }
>  
>      return chr;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.7.5.1
> 
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