Re: [PATCH] xenbus: don't look up transaction IDs for ordinary writes

From: Ed Swierk
Date: Thu Aug 18 2016 - 08:43:11 EST


On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15/08/16 17:02, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> 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 SchÃtz <rschuetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Richard SchÃtz <rschuetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

Confirmed that this patch fixes xenstore-read, xenstore-ls et al, on
stable kernel 4.4.17.

It should also go to 4.7, 4.6, 4.1, 3.18.

--Ed