This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in vmbus_open() to the 3.10-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: drivers-hv-vmbus-fix-a-bug-in-vmbus_open.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 45d727cee9e200f5b351528b9fb063b69cf702c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:25:35 -0700 Subject: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in vmbus_open() From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 45d727cee9e200f5b351528b9fb063b69cf702c8 upstream. Fix a bug in vmbus_open() and properly propagate the error. I would like to thank Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> for identifying the issue. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hv/channel.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/hv/channel.c +++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c @@ -199,8 +199,10 @@ int vmbus_open(struct vmbus_channel *new ret = vmbus_post_msg(open_msg, sizeof(struct vmbus_channel_open_channel)); - if (ret != 0) + if (ret != 0) { + err = ret; goto error1; + } t = wait_for_completion_timeout(&open_info->waitevent, 5*HZ); if (t == 0) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/drivers-hv-vmbus-cleanup-vmbus_teardown_gpadl.patch queue-3.10/drivers-hv-vmbus-cleanup-vmbus_establish_gpadl.patch queue-3.10/drivers-hv-vmbus-cleanup-vmbus_post_msg.patch queue-3.10/drivers-hv-vmbus-fix-a-bug-in-vmbus_open.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