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

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 14:08 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 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.

Acked + applied both.


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