Patch "xenbus: don't look up transaction IDs for ordinary writes" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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 4.7-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-4.7 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>
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-4.7/xenbus-don-t-look-up-transaction-ids-for-ordinary-writes.patch