From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:36890 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751271AbcJ0QTU (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:19:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:17:56 +0200 From: Greg KH To: "M. Vefa Bicakci" Cc: "stable@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: A xenbus bug-fix commit missing on the stable/linux-4.4.y branch Message-ID: <20161027161756.GA15284@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 06:34:18PM +0300, M. Vefa Bicakci wrote: > Dear all, > > I recently found out that the following commit is not on the linux-4.4.y branch, even though it is on the linux-4.7.y and linux-4.8.y branches: > > === 8< === > commit 9a035a40f7f3f6708b79224b86c5777a3334f7ea > Author: Jan Beulich > Date: Mon Aug 15 09:02:38 2016 -0600 > > xenbus: don't look up transaction IDs for ordinary writes > > 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 Sch�tz > Cc: > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich > Tested-by: Richard Sch�tz > Signed-off-by: David Vrabel > === >8 === > > This commit is required to ensure the proper operation of xenstore-related tools. > > Would it be possible to include this commit in the patches queued for the next linux-4.4.y release? Ah, good catch, I'll queue it up after these next releases go out tomorrow. thanks, greg k-h