This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nvme-auth: unlock mutex in one place only to the 6.1-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: nvme-auth-unlock-mutex-in-one-place-only.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e85d53548a98fef7933fc10ff03f588037cafaf9 Author: Mark O'Donovan <shiftee@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 11 08:45:11 2023 +0000 nvme-auth: unlock mutex in one place only [ Upstream commit 616add70bfdc0274a253e84fc78155c27aacde91 ] Signed-off-by: Mark O'Donovan <shiftee@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/auth.c b/drivers/nvme/host/auth.c index 9dfd3d0293054..7c9dfb420c464 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/auth.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/auth.c @@ -758,6 +758,7 @@ static void nvme_queue_auth_work(struct work_struct *work) dev_dbg(ctrl->device, "%s: qid %d host response\n", __func__, chap->qid); ret = nvme_auth_dhchap_setup_host_response(ctrl, chap); + mutex_unlock(&ctrl->dhchap_auth_mutex); if (ret) { chap->error = ret; goto fail2;