RE: [PATCH 04/15] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Prevent sending data on a rescinded channel

From: KY Srinivasan
Date: Mon Dec 05 2016 - 11:06:21 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 2:01 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> 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 rescinded channel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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> > From: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > After the channel is rescinded, the host does not read from the rescinded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 Fail writes to a channel that has already been rescinded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