From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:53751 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753339AbbJSKxm (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:53:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:53:40 +0100 From: Luis Henriques To: "Kamata, Munehisa" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, aliguori@amazon.com, 3chas3@gmail.com Subject: Re: net/xen-netfront patch for stable Message-ID: <20151019105340.GE3424@ares> References: <5615A7CF.1040106@amazon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. > Looks like this commit could also be applied to the 3.16 kernel. I'm queuing it for the next release. Cheers, -- Lu�s