Hi Greg, It turns out the patch is not needed for linux-4.14.y, because 4.14 doesn't have this commit:

c2e5df616e1a ("vmbus: add per-channel sysfs info"), which adds this chunk:

@@ -513,6 +513,14 @@ static void vmbus_process_offer(struct vmbus_channel *newchannel) newchannel->state = CHANNEL_OPEN_STATE; ... + if (vmbus_add_channel_kobj(dev, newchannel)) { + atomic_dec(&vmbus_connection.offer_in_progress); ...

When c2e5df616e1a is not present, 6f3d791f3006 ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix rescind handling issues") can not introduce the bug.

Thanks, -- Dexuan

-----Original Message----- From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Sent: Friday, September 7, 2018 02:35 To: Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com; gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; KY Srinivasan kys@microsoft.com; stable@vger.kernel.org; Stephen Hemminger sthemmin@microsoft.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix the offer_in_progress in" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 50229128727f7e11840ca1b2b501f880818d56b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 13:37:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix the offer_in_progress in vmbus_process_offer()

I didn't really hit a real bug, but just happened to spot the bug: we have decreased the counter at the beginning of vmbus_process_offer(), so we mustn't decrease it again.

Fixes: 6f3d791f3006 ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix rescind handling issues") Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stephen Hemminger sthemmin@microsoft.com Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan kys@microsoft.com Cc: Stable stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14 and above Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan kys@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c index ecc2bd275a73..f3b551a50653 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c +++ b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c @@ -527,10 +527,8 @@ static void vmbus_process_offer(struct vmbus_channel *newchannel) struct hv_device *dev = newchannel->primary_channel->device_obj;

• if (vmbus_add_channel_kobj(dev, newchannel)) {
  

• 	atomic_dec(&vmbus_connection.offer_in_progress);
  

• if (vmbus_add_channel_kobj(dev, newchannel))
  goto err_free_chan;
  

• }
  
  

  if (channel->sc_creation_callback != NULL) channel->sc_creation_callback(newchannel);