On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:48:16PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:57 PM
> > To: KY Srinivasan
> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
> > [email protected];
> > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
> > 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 code the driver probe would fail for channels that have been rescinded and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 <[email protected]>
> > > Cc: <[email protected]>
> >
> > 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 <[email protected]>
> 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
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