From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:41773 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752778AbcIIQHv (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2016 12:07:51 -0400 Subject: Patch "xenbus: don't look up transaction IDs for ordinary writes" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree To: JBeulich@suse.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jbeulich@suse.com, rschuetz@uni-koblenz.de Cc: , From: Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 18:07:26 +0200 Message-ID: <14734372469464@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 know about it. >>From 9a035a40f7f3f6708b79224b86c5777a3334f7ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Beulich Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:02:38 -0600 Subject: xenbus: don't look up transaction IDs for ordinary writes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Jan Beulich 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 Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Tested-by: Richard Schütz Signed-off-by: David Vrabel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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