This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: fix stray unlock in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable to the 6.7-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: cifs-fix-stray-unlock-in-cifs_chan_skip_or_disable.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b0e7ac8c14acacc1ba5a19cd2be944c679a1b72b Author: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 23 05:07:57 2024 +0000 cifs: fix stray unlock in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable [ Upstream commit 993d1c346b1a51ac41b2193609a0d4e51e9748f4 ] A recent change moved the code that decides to skip a channel or disable multichannel entirely, into a helper function. During this, a mutex_unlock of the session_mutex should have been removed. Doing that here. Fixes: f591062bdbf4 ("cifs: handle servers that still advertise multichannel after disabling") Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c index bfec2ca0f4e6..f5006aa97f5b 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c @@ -195,7 +195,6 @@ cifs_chan_skip_or_disable(struct cifs_ses *ses, pserver = server->primary_server; cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect(pserver, false); skip_terminate: - mutex_unlock(&ses->session_mutex); return -EHOSTDOWN; }