[SRU][Xenial][Zesty][PATCH 0/1] Drivers: hv: util: move waiting for release to hv_utils_transport itself

[Colin Ian King]

On 13/04/17 22:09, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682561
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> Microsoft is observing call traces with the current proposed kernels 
> that are shown in the bug description.  Commit e9c18ae6eb is the fix
> to this issue.  This commit is needed in X, Y and Z.  However, the Yakkey SRU
> will be sent separatly from X and Z.  This is because Y does not have commit
> 0d325d642c648 and X and Z do.  The cherry pick is clean in X, Y and Z, but the 
> Y resulting patch is different because it doesn not have 0d325d642c648.
> 
> This commit was included in mainline in 4.11-rc4.
> 
> == Fix ==
> commit e9c18ae6eb2b312f16c63e34b43ea23926daa398
> Author: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets at redhat.com>
> Date:   Sat Mar 4 18:13:59 2017 -0700
> 
>     Drivers: hv: util: move waiting for release to hv_utils_transport itself
> 
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
> 
> Vitaly Kuznetsov (1):
>   Drivers: hv: util: move waiting for release to hv_utils_transport
>     itself
> 
>  drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c           |  4 ----
>  drivers/hv/hv_kvp.c             |  4 ----
>  drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c        |  4 ----
>  drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c | 12 ++++++++----
>  drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.h |  1 +
>  5 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
The fix is an upstream cherry pick, just touches this specific driver
and hence has limited regression potential, plus it has positive test
results. So...

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>