This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ACPI: battery: Simplify battery hook locking 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: acpi-battery-simplify-battery-hook-locking.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 9a7c13cafb4f74fd603f17119ee50e07faad39dc Author: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 1 23:28:33 2024 +0200 ACPI: battery: Simplify battery hook locking [ Upstream commit 86309cbed26139e1caae7629dcca1027d9a28e75 ] Move the conditional locking from __battery_hook_unregister() into battery_hook_unregister() and rename the low-level function to simplify the locking during battery hook removal. Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241001212835.341788-2-W_Armin@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: 76959aff14a0 ("ACPI: battery: Fix possible crash when unregistering a battery hook") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c index aed4132985a96..6a8580427e1a9 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c @@ -701,27 +701,27 @@ static LIST_HEAD(acpi_battery_list); static LIST_HEAD(battery_hook_list); static DEFINE_MUTEX(hook_mutex); -static void __battery_hook_unregister(struct acpi_battery_hook *hook, int lock) +static void battery_hook_unregister_unlocked(struct acpi_battery_hook *hook) { struct acpi_battery *battery; + /* * In order to remove a hook, we first need to * de-register all the batteries that are registered. */ - if (lock) - mutex_lock(&hook_mutex); list_for_each_entry(battery, &acpi_battery_list, list) { hook->remove_battery(battery->bat); } list_del(&hook->list); - if (lock) - mutex_unlock(&hook_mutex); + pr_info("extension unregistered: %s\n", hook->name); } void battery_hook_unregister(struct acpi_battery_hook *hook) { - __battery_hook_unregister(hook, 1); + mutex_lock(&hook_mutex); + battery_hook_unregister_unlocked(hook); + mutex_unlock(&hook_mutex); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(battery_hook_unregister); @@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ void battery_hook_register(struct acpi_battery_hook *hook) * hooks. */ pr_err("extension failed to load: %s", hook->name); - __battery_hook_unregister(hook, 0); + battery_hook_unregister_unlocked(hook); goto end; } } @@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ static void battery_hook_add_battery(struct acpi_battery *battery) */ pr_err("error in extension, unloading: %s", hook_node->name); - __battery_hook_unregister(hook_node, 0); + battery_hook_unregister_unlocked(hook_node); } } mutex_unlock(&hook_mutex); @@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ static void __exit battery_hook_exit(void) * need to remove the hooks. */ list_for_each_entry_safe(hook, ptr, &battery_hook_list, list) { - __battery_hook_unregister(hook, 1); + battery_hook_unregister(hook); } mutex_destroy(&hook_mutex); }