From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/hv/channel.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel.c b/drivers/hv/channel.c index eb556cad5029..dea661331351 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/channel.c +++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c @@ -208,8 +208,10 @@ int vmbus_open(struct vmbus_channel *newchannel, u32 send_ringbuffer_size, 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) { -- 2.1.2 -- 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