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 <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9a035a40f7f3f6708b79224b86c5777a3334f7ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> 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 <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> 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 <rschuetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Richard Schütz <rschuetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/xenbus-don-t-look-up-transaction-ids-for-ordinary-writes.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html