Xen devel - Apr 2013 - Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/block/xen-blkback: preq.dev is used without initialized

>>> On 03.04.13 at 15:25, William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
wrote:
>> Iirc we requested the earlier commit to be removed from stable
>> trees, and I think Greg also did so.
> 
> I''m sorry but I''m unable to find a revert of 01c681d in
stable tree.
ChangeLog-3.8.3 for example has

commit 32f4d10ed8fd7ef4cebbf02c5326e8bb6aeca9b1
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue Mar 12 15:08:26 2013 -0700

    Revert "xen/blkback: Don''t trust the handle from the
frontend."
    
    This reverts commit 01c681d4c70d64cb72142a2823f27c4146a02e63 upstream
    (ef56ca64ea733c3b88f0bb74b04da128b1dc35d8 in this tree), as it
wasn''t
    supposed to have been applied to the stable tree.
    
    Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
    Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
    Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


Jan