This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: qlcnic: add missed unlock in qlcnic_83xx_flash_read32 to the 5.13-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-qlcnic-add-missed-unlock-in-qlcnic_83xx_flash_re.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4cf2f88ee730dae592ff8c7b1b972ff0f9e8e663 Author: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Aug 16 21:14:04 2021 +0800 net: qlcnic: add missed unlock in qlcnic_83xx_flash_read32 [ Upstream commit 0a298d133893c72c96e2156ed7cb0f0c4a306a3e ] qlcnic_83xx_unlock_flash() is called on all paths after we call qlcnic_83xx_lock_flash(), except for one error path on failure of QLCRD32(), which may cause a deadlock. This bug is suggested by a static analysis tool, please advise. Fixes: 81d0aeb0a4fff ("qlcnic: flash template based firmware reset recovery") Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210816131405.24024-1-dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c index d8882d0b6b49..d51bac7ba5af 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c @@ -3156,8 +3156,10 @@ int qlcnic_83xx_flash_read32(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter, u32 flash_addr, indirect_addr = QLC_83XX_FLASH_DIRECT_DATA(addr); ret = QLCRD32(adapter, indirect_addr, &err); - if (err == -EIO) + if (err == -EIO) { + qlcnic_83xx_unlock_flash(adapter); return err; + } word = ret; *(u32 *)p_data = word;