From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753290AbZAZNaF (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:30:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750989AbZAZN3y (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:29:54 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:38213 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750738AbZAZN3x (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:29:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:29:43 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Ian Campbell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Adam Wendt , Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: unitialised return value in xenbus_write_transaction Message-ID: <20090126132943.GB13567@elte.hu> References: <03f51a1eb4a7e77d6488.1232785367@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03f51a1eb4a7e77d6488.1232785367@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0020] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Ian Campbell wrote: > The return value of xenbus_write_transaction can be uninitialised in > the success case leading to the userspace xenstore utilities failing. > > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell > Cc: Adam Wendt > Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge > Cc: Ingo Molnar > > --- > drivers/xen/xenfs/xenbus.c | 11 +++++------ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Ian! Ingo