Patch "tools: hv: vss: fix the write()'s argument: error -> vss_msg" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tools: hv: vss: fix the write()'s argument: error -> vss_msg

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:
     tools-hv-vss-fix-the-write-s-argument-error-vss_msg.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 a689d2510f188e75391dbebacbddfd74d42f2a7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:01:58 -0800
Subject: tools: hv: vss: fix the write()'s argument: error -> vss_msg

From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>

commit a689d2510f188e75391dbebacbddfd74d42f2a7e upstream.

Fix the write()'s argument in the daemon code.

Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 			syslog(LOG_ERR, "Illegal op:%d\n", op);
 		}
 		vss_msg->error = error;
-		len = write(vss_fd, &error, sizeof(struct hv_vss_msg));
+		len = write(vss_fd, vss_msg, sizeof(struct hv_vss_msg));
 		if (len != sizeof(struct hv_vss_msg)) {
 			syslog(LOG_ERR, "write failed; error: %d %s", errno,
 			       strerror(errno));


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from decui@microsoft.com are

queue-4.4/tools-hv-vss-fix-the-write-s-argument-error-vss_msg.patch