[PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in the handling of channel offers

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:48:16PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]
> > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:57 PM
> > To: KY Srinivasan
> > Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; devel at linuxdriverproject.org; olaf at aepfle.de;
> > apw at canonical.com; jasowang at redhat.com; stable at vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in the handling of channel
> > offers
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:08:58PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > > The channel state should be correctly set before registering the device. In the
> > current
> > > code the driver probe would fail for channels that have been rescinded and
> > subsequently
> > > re-offered. Fix the bug.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
> > > Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> > 
> > What older kernel versions have this bug?  When did it show up?
> 
> The patch that introduced the bug is:
> 
> commit e68d2971d26577b932a16333ce165af98a96e068
> Author: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
> Date:   Thu May 23 12:02:32 2013 -0700
> 
>     Drivers: hv: vmbus: Implement multi-channel support
> 
> I think 3.10 shipped with this bug.

Why do you think that, it's not what git shows:
	$ git describe --contains e68d2971d26577b932a16333ce165af98a96e068
	v3.11-rc1~157^2~64

So this is a 3.11-only thing, right?

thanks,

greg k-h