[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "vhost: actually track log eventfd file" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Sep 2 00:55:44 UTC 2015


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

    vhost: actually track log eventfd file

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

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt26.

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-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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commit 7932c0bd7740f4cd2aa168d3ce0199e7af7d72d5 upstream.

While reviewing vhost log code, I found out that log_file is never
set. Note: I haven't tested the change (QEMU doesn't use LOG_FD yet).

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 69068e0..384bcc8 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -878,6 +878,7 @@ long vhost_dev_ioctl(struct vhost_dev *d, unsigned int ioctl, void __user *argp)
 		}
 		if (eventfp != d->log_file) {
 			filep = d->log_file;
+			d->log_file = eventfp;
 			ctx = d->log_ctx;
 			d->log_ctx = eventfp ?
 				eventfd_ctx_fileget(eventfp) : NULL;
--
1.9.1





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