This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tty: n_gsm: fix race condition in status line change on dead connections to the 5.15-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: tty-n_gsm-fix-race-condition-in-status-line-change-on-dead-connections.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3a75b205de43365f80a33b98ec9289785da56243 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Starke <daniel.starke@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 07:58:43 +0200 Subject: tty: n_gsm: fix race condition in status line change on dead connections From: Daniel Starke <daniel.starke@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 3a75b205de43365f80a33b98ec9289785da56243 upstream. gsm_cleanup_mux() cleans up the gsm by closing all DLCIs, stopping all timers, removing the virtual tty devices and clearing the data queues. This procedure, however, may cause subsequent changes of the virtual modem status lines of a DLCI. More data is being added the outgoing data queue and the deleted kick timer is restarted to handle this. At this point many resources have already been removed by the cleanup procedure. Thus, a kernel panic occurs. Fix this by proving in gsm_modem_update() that the cleanup procedure has not been started and the mux is still alive. Note that writing to a virtual tty is already protected by checks against the DLCI specific connection state. Fixes: c568f7086c6e ("tty: n_gsm: fix missing timer to handle stalled links") Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Starke <daniel.starke@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231026055844.3127-1-daniel.starke@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/n_gsm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c +++ b/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c @@ -3273,6 +3273,8 @@ static int gsm_modem_upd_via_msc(struct static int gsm_modem_update(struct gsm_dlci *dlci, u8 brk) { + if (dlci->gsm->dead) + return -EL2HLT; if (dlci->adaption == 2) { /* Send convergence layer type 2 empty data frame. */ gsm_modem_upd_via_data(dlci, brk); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel.starke@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/tty-n_gsm-fix-race-condition-in-status-line-change-on-dead-connections.patch