[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath-windows: Enable failure after restarting extension

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 09:02:17PM +0000, Nithin Raju wrote:
> > ----Original Message-----
> > From: Nithin Raju [mailto:nithin at vmware.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, 3 August, 2015 20:22
> > To: Sorin Vinturis
> > Cc: dev at openvswitch.org
> > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath-windows: Enable failure after restarting extension
> > 
> >> On Jul 15, 2015, at 7:50 AM, Sorin Vinturis <svinturis at cloudbasesolutions.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> If the extension was previously enabled and running, after issuing a 
> >> restart, stop+start, the extension fails to be enabled. This happens 
> >> because the extension's DeviceObject is not yet initialized before the 
> >> FilterAttach routine is called.
> >> 
> >> This patch addresses this issue.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Sorin Vinturis <svinturis at cloudbasesolutions.com>
> >> Reported-by: Sorin Vinturis <svinturis at cloudbasesolutions.com>
> 
> hi Sorin,
> Thanks for the explanation. The race condition is indeed very intricate.
> 
> Acked-by: Nithin Raju <nithin at vmware.com>

Thanks Sorin and Nithin, I applied this to master and branch-2.4.