From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:56976 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752007AbbJRAGR (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Oct 2015 20:06:17 -0400 Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E5120910 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 20:06:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:06:15 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "Kamata, Munehisa" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, aliguori@amazon.com, 3chas3@gmail.com Subject: Re: net/xen-netfront patch for stable Message-ID: <20151018000615.GB18971@kroah.com> References: <5615A7CF.1040106@amazon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5615A7CF.1040106@amazon.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 04:16:31PM -0700, Kamata, Munehisa wrote: > Hi stable maintainers, > > Could you please consider applying the following patch to stable trees? In particular, I think this is needed for 3.18 or later. > > 274b045509175db0405c784be85e8cce116e6f7d net/xen-netfront: only napi_synchronize() if running > > Without this commit, we found that a migrated Linux guest could go into an infinite loop at boot. We confirmed that the issue went away with v4.1.6 + the commit. > Now applied, thanks. greg k-h