[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in vmbus_open()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in vmbus_open()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From bbb610f40a4dfd156fdbb192aba94cdbb5dd1f98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys at microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:25:35 -0700
Subject: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in vmbus_open()

commit 45d727cee9e200f5b351528b9fb063b69cf702c8 upstream.

Fix a bug in vmbus_open() and properly propagate the error. I would
like to thank Dexuan Cui <decui at microsoft.com> for identifying the
issue.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe at yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 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 6c28f48..dd6ba42 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/channel.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c
@@ -164,8 +164,10 @@ 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) {
--
1.9.1