Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] libxl: Fix error path in libxl_device_events_handler

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Jackson writes ("[PATCH 1/2] libxl: Fix error path in 
libxl_device_events_handler"):
> libxl_device_events_handler would fail to call AO_ABORT if it failed;
> instead it would simply return rc.  (This leaves the egc etc. from the
> now-abolished stack frame potentially live, and leaves the ctx
> locked.)
> 
> In xl, this is of no consequence, because xl will immediately exit in
> this situation.  This is very likely to be true in any other callers
> (of which we don't know of any, anyway).

FAOD, I see no need for this to be in 4.4, although it should go in
iff we are currently accepting trivial bugfixes.

Ian.

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