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

vmbus: don't return values for uninitalized channels

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-linus 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 hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

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

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From: Stephen Hemminger stephen@networkplumber.org Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 21:16:40 +0000 Subject: vmbus: don't return values for uninitalized channels

For unsupported device types, the vmbus channel ringbuffer is never initialized, and therefore reading the sysfs files will return garbage or cause a kernel OOPS.

Fixes: c2e5df616e1a ("vmbus: add per-channel sysfs info")

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger sthemmin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan kys@microsoft.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.15 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c index b1b548a21f91..c71cc857b649 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c @@ -1291,6 +1291,9 @@ static ssize_t vmbus_chan_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj, if (!attribute->show) return -EIO;

+ if (chan->state != CHANNEL_OPENED_STATE) + return -EINVAL; + return attribute->show(chan, buf); }