This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5: FWTrace, cancel work on alloc pd error flow to the 5.14-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-mlx5-fwtrace-cancel-work-on-alloc-pd-error-flow.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From dfe6fd72b5f1878b16aa2c8603e031bbcd66b96d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:09:26 -0700 Subject: net/mlx5: FWTrace, cancel work on alloc pd error flow From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx> commit dfe6fd72b5f1878b16aa2c8603e031bbcd66b96d upstream. Handle error flow on mlx5_core_alloc_pd() failure, read_fw_strings_work must be canceled. Fixes: c71ad41ccb0c ("net/mlx5: FW tracer, events handling") Reported-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@xxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Aya Levin <ayal@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c @@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ int mlx5_fw_tracer_init(struct mlx5_fw_t err = mlx5_core_alloc_pd(dev, &tracer->buff.pdn); if (err) { mlx5_core_warn(dev, "FWTracer: Failed to allocate PD %d\n", err); - return err; + goto err_cancel_work; } err = mlx5_fw_tracer_create_mkey(tracer); @@ -1031,6 +1031,7 @@ err_notifier_unregister: mlx5_core_destroy_mkey(dev, &tracer->buff.mkey); err_dealloc_pd: mlx5_core_dealloc_pd(dev, tracer->buff.pdn); +err_cancel_work: cancel_work_sync(&tracer->read_fw_strings_work); return err; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.14/net-mlx5-fix-potential-sleeping-in-atomic-context.patch queue-5.14/ethtool-fix-rxnfc-copy-to-user-buffer-overflow.patch queue-5.14/net-mlx5-fwtrace-cancel-work-on-alloc-pd-error-flow.patch