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 3.16-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-3.16 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
@@ -165,8 +165,10 @@ 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-3.16/drivers-hv-util-properly-pack-the-data-for-file-copy-functionality.patch
queue-3.16/drivers-hv-vmbus-cleanup-hv_post_message.patch
queue-3.16/drivers-hv-vmbus-cleanup-vmbus_teardown_gpadl.patch
queue-3.16/drivers-hv-vmbus-cleanup-vmbus_establish_gpadl.patch
queue-3.16/drivers-hv-vmbus-cleanup-vmbus_close_internal.patch
queue-3.16/drivers-hv-vmbus-cleanup-vmbus_post_msg.patch
queue-3.16/drivers-hv-vmbus-fix-a-bug-in-vmbus_open.patch
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