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 <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> 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 Schütz <rschuetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Richard Schütz <rschuetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> === >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
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