[PATCH 04/15] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Prevent sending data on a rescinded channel

KY Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Mon Dec 5 15:50:22 UTC 2016



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter at oracle.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 2:01 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
> Cc: gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> devel at linuxdriverproject.org; olaf at aepfle.de; apw at canonical.com;
> vkuznets at redhat.com; jasowang at redhat.com;
> leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/15] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Prevent sending data on a
> rescinded channel
> 
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 09:28:41AM -0800, kys at exchange.microsoft.com
> wrote:
> > From: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
> >
> > After the channel is rescinded, the host does not read from the rescinded
> channel.
> > Fail writes to a channel that has already been rescinded
> 
> What are the user visible effects of this bug?  Presumably none right
> since it doesn't need to be back ported.
> 
> But it's absolutely impossible to tell from the commit message.

Thanks Dan. I will update the commit log and resend.

K. Y

> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter



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