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

From	Ed Swierk <eswierk@skyportsystems.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] xenbus: don't look up transaction IDs for ordinary writes
Date	2016-08-18 14:50 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> 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 Schütz <rschuetz@uni-koblenz.de>
>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>> Tested-by: Richard Schütz <rschuetz@uni-koblenz.de>
>
> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

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

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Re: [PATCH] xenbus: don't look up transaction IDs for ordinary writes Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2016-08-16 12:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] xenbus: don't look up transaction IDs for ordinary writes Ed Swierk <eswierk@skyportsystems.com> - 2016-08-18 14:50 +0200

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