4.9-stable patches

[thirdparty/kernel/stable-queue.git] / releases / 4.4.160 / xen-manage-don-t-complain-about-an-empty-value-in-control-sysrq-node.patch

From foo@baz Mon Oct  8 18:07:05 CEST 2018
From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 13:26:08 +0200
Subject: xen/manage: don't complain about an empty value in control/sysrq node

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 87dffe86d406bee8782cac2db035acb9a28620a7 ]

When guest receives a sysrq request from the host it acknowledges it by
writing '\0' to control/sysrq xenstore node. This, however, make xenstore
watch fire again but xenbus_scanf() fails to parse empty value with "%c"
format string:

 sysrq: SysRq : Emergency Sync
 Emergency Sync complete
 xen:manage: Error -34 reading sysrq code in control/sysrq

Ignore -ERANGE the same way we already ignore -ENOENT, empty value in
control/sysrq is totally legal.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/xen/manage.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/xen/manage.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/manage.c
@@ -280,9 +280,11 @@ static void sysrq_handler(struct xenbus_
 		/*
 		 * The Xenstore watch fires directly after registering it and
 		 * after a suspend/resume cycle. So ENOENT is no error but
-		 * might happen in those cases.
+		 * might happen in those cases. ERANGE is observed when we get
+		 * an empty value (''), this happens when we acknowledge the
+		 * request by writing '\0' below.
 		 */
-		if (err != -ENOENT)
+		if (err != -ENOENT && err != -ERANGE)
 			pr_err("Error %d reading sysrq code in control/sysrq\n",
 			       err);
 		xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 1);