Re: Patch "staging: greybus: uart: Fix atomicity violation in get_serial_info()" has been added to the 6.12-stable tree

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On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 03:53:49PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 07:36:20AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     staging: greybus: uart: Fix atomicity violation in get_serial_info()
> > 
> > to the 6.12-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:
> >      staging-greybus-uart-fix-atomicity-violation-in-get_.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-6.12 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > commit 61937fd741031632e0a1337553e51b754748ca0d
> > Author: Qiu-ji Chen <chenqiuji666@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Thu Nov 7 19:33:37 2024 +0800
> > 
> >     staging: greybus: uart: Fix atomicity violation in get_serial_info()
> >     
> >     [ Upstream commit fe0ebeafc3b723b2f8edf27ecec6d353b08397df ]
> >     
> >     Our static checker found a bug where set_serial_info() uses a mutex, but
> >     get_serial_info() does not. Fortunately, the impact of this is relatively
> >     minor. It doesn't cause a crash or any other serious issues. However, if a
> >     race condition occurs between set_serial_info() and get_serial_info(),
> >     there is a chance that the data returned by get_serial_info() will be
> >     meaningless.
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Qiu-ji Chen <chenqiuji666@xxxxxxxxx>
> >     Fixes: 0aad5ad563c8 ("greybus/uart: switch to ->[sg]et_serial()")
> >     Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >     Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >     Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >     Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241107113337.402042-1-chenqiuji666@xxxxxxxxx
> >     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >     Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The CC stable tag was omitted on purpose here so please drop this one
> and any dependencies from all stable queues.

Now dropped from all queues, thanks.

greg k-h




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