patch "Drivers: hv: vmbus: Prevent sending data on a rescinded channel" added to char-misc-testing

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Prevent sending data on a rescinded channel

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-testing branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will be merged to the char-misc-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 01:16:28 -0800
Subject: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Prevent sending data on a rescinded channel

After the channel is rescinded, the host does not read from the rescinded channel. Fail writes to a channel that has already been rescinded. If we permit writes on a rescinded channel, since the host will not respond we will have situations where we will be unable to unload vmbus drivers that cannot have any outstanding requests to the host at the point they are unoaded.

---
 drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

index cd49cb17eb7f..2cd402986858 100644
@@ -298,6 +298,9 @@ int hv_ringbuffer_write(struct vmbus_channel *channel,
 	unsigned long flags = 0;
 	struct hv_ring_buffer_info *outring_info = &channel->outbound;
 
+	if (channel->rescind)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < kv_count; i++)
 		totalbytes_towrite += kv_list[i].iov_len;
 

@@ -350,6 +353,10 @@ int hv_ringbuffer_write(struct vmbus_channel *channel,
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&outring_info->ring_lock, flags);
 
 	hv_signal_on_write(old_write, channel, kick_q);
+
+	if (channel->rescind)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 

2.11.0