This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xen/manage: correct return value check on xenbus_scanf()
to the 4.9-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:
xen-manage-correct-return-value-check-on-xenbus_scanf.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Nov 6 10:07:35 CET 2017
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:36:53 +0000
Subject: xen/manage: correct return value check on xenbus_scanf()
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 4fed1b125eb6252bde478665fc05d4819f774fa8 ]
A negative return value indicates an error; in fact the function at
present won't ever return zero.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/xen/manage.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/xen/manage.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/manage.c
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static void sysrq_handler(struct xenbus_
err = xenbus_transaction_start(&xbt);
if (err)
return;
- if (!xenbus_scanf(xbt, "control", "sysrq", "%c", &sysrq_key)) {
+ if (xenbus_scanf(xbt, "control", "sysrq", "%c", &sysrq_key) < 0) {
pr_err("Unable to read sysrq code in control/sysrq\n");
xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 1);
return;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from JBeulich@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/xen-manage-correct-return-value-check-on-xenbus_scanf.patch