This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled clk: Remove prepare_lock hold assertion in __clk_release() 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: clk-remove-prepare_lock-hold-assertion-in-__clk_rele.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. commit 7f548c4365194a6e5374b1b578fcd8dd50615c67 Author: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 25 11:41:55 2024 -0700 clk: Remove prepare_lock hold assertion in __clk_release() [ Upstream commit 8358a76cfb47c9a5af627a0c4e7168aa14fa25f6 ] Removing this assertion lets us move the kref_put() call outside the prepare_lock section. We don't need to hold the prepare_lock here to free memory and destroy the clk_core structure. We've already unlinked the clk from the clk tree and by the time the release function runs nothing holds a reference to the clk_core anymore so anything with the pointer can't access the memory that's being freed anyway. Way back in commit 496eadf821c2 ("clk: Use lockdep asserts to find missing hold of prepare_lock") we didn't need to have this assertion either. Fixes: 496eadf821c2 ("clk: Use lockdep asserts to find missing hold of prepare_lock") Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325184204.745706-2-sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c index 84397af4fb336..acbe917cbe775 100644 --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c @@ -4047,8 +4047,6 @@ static void __clk_release(struct kref *ref) { struct clk_core *core = container_of(ref, struct clk_core, ref); - lockdep_assert_held(&prepare_lock); - clk_core_free_parent_map(core); kfree_const(core->name); kfree(core);