This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[PATCH 039/135] Drivers: hv: vss: run only on supported host versions
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:
0039-Drivers-hv-vss-run-only-on-supported-host-versions.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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ad43527212d81be98c9194972dd8adaeb405189b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:01:42 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 039/135] Drivers: hv: vss: run only on supported host versions
[ Upstream commit ed9ba608e4851144af8c7061cbb19f751c73e998 ]
The Backup integration service on WS2012 has appearently trouble to
negotiate with a guest which does not support the provided util version.
Currently the VSS driver supports only version 5/0. A WS2012 offers only
version 1/x and 3/x, and vmbus_prep_negotiate_resp correctly returns an
empty icframe_vercnt/icmsg_vercnt. But the host ignores that and
continues to send ICMSGTYPE_NEGOTIATE messages. The result are weird
errors during boot and general misbehaviour.
Check the Windows version to work around the host bug, skip hv_vss_init
on WS2012 and older.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c
@@ -331,6 +331,11 @@ static void vss_on_reset(void)
int
hv_vss_init(struct hv_util_service *srv)
{
+ if (vmbus_proto_version < VERSION_WIN8_1) {
+ pr_warn("Integration service 'Backup (volume snapshot)'"
+ " not supported on this host version.\n");
+ return -ENOTSUPP;
+ }
recv_buffer = srv->recv_buffer;
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from olaf@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/0036-tools-hv-report-ENOSPC-errors-in-hv_fcopy_daemon.patch
queue-4.4/0035-Drivers-hv-utils-run-polling-callback-always-in-inte.patch
queue-4.4/0037-Drivers-hv-util-catch-allocation-errors.patch
queue-4.4/0039-Drivers-hv-vss-run-only-on-supported-host-versions.patch
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