* Patch "xenbus: don't look up transaction IDs for ordinary writes" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
@ 2016-10-28 8:53 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2016-10-28 8:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: JBeulich, david.vrabel, gregkh, jbeulich, m.v.b, rschuetz
Cc: stable, stable-commits
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xenbus: don't look up transaction IDs for ordinary writes
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
xenbus-don-t-look-up-transaction-ids-for-ordinary-writes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From 9a035a40f7f3f6708b79224b86c5777a3334f7ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:02:38 -0600
Subject: xenbus: don't look up transaction IDs for ordinary writes
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From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
commit 9a035a40f7f3f6708b79224b86c5777a3334f7ea upstream.
This should really only be done for XS_TRANSACTION_END messages, or
else at least some of the xenstore-* tools don't work anymore.
Fixes: 0beef634b8 ("xenbus: don't BUG() on user mode induced condition")
Reported-by: Richard Schütz <rschuetz@uni-koblenz.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Tested-by: Richard Schütz <rschuetz@uni-koblenz.de>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: "M. Vefa Bicakci" <m.v.b@runbox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ static int xenbus_write_transaction(unsi
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
- } else {
+ } else if (msg_type == XS_TRANSACTION_END) {
list_for_each_entry(trans, &u->transactions, list)
if (trans->handle.id == u->u.msg.tx_id)
break;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from JBeulich@suse.com are
queue-4.4/xenbus-don-t-look-up-transaction-ids-for-ordinary-writes.patch
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