This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled RDMA/mlx5: Fix mutex unlocking on error flow for steering anchor creation to the 6.5-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: rdma-mlx5-fix-mutex-unlocking-on-error-flow-for-steering-anchor-creation.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2fad8f06a582cd431d398a0b3f9be21d069603ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hamdan Igbaria <hamdani@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:01:55 +0300 Subject: RDMA/mlx5: Fix mutex unlocking on error flow for steering anchor creation From: Hamdan Igbaria <hamdani@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 2fad8f06a582cd431d398a0b3f9be21d069603ab upstream. The mutex was not unlocked on some of the error flows. Moved the unlock location to include all the error flow scenarios. Fixes: e1f4a52ac171 ("RDMA/mlx5: Create an indirect flow table for steering anchor") Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hamdan Igbaria <hamdani@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1244a69d783da997c0af0b827c622eb00495492e.1695203958.git.leonro@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/fs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/fs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/fs.c @@ -2470,8 +2470,8 @@ destroy_res: mlx5_steering_anchor_destroy_res(ft_prio); put_flow_table: put_flow_table(dev, ft_prio, true); - mutex_unlock(&dev->flow_db->lock); free_obj: + mutex_unlock(&dev->flow_db->lock); kfree(obj); return err; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hamdani@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.5/rdma-mlx5-fix-mutex-unlocking-on-error-flow-for-steering-anchor-creation.patch