This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/ipv6: Correct PIM6 mrt_lock handling to the 4.2-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: net-ipv6-correct-pim6-mrt_lock-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Sep 30 05:25:07 CEST 2015 From: Richard Laing <richard.laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:52:31 +1200 Subject: net/ipv6: Correct PIM6 mrt_lock handling From: Richard Laing <richard.laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 25b4a44c19c83d98e8c0807a7ede07c1f28eab8b ] In the IPv6 multicast routing code the mrt_lock was not being released correctly in the MFC iterator, as a result adding or deleting a MIF would cause a hang because the mrt_lock could not be acquired. This fix is a copy of the code for the IPv4 case and ensures that the lock is released correctly. Signed-off-by: Richard Laing <richard.laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ static void ipmr_mfc_seq_stop(struct seq if (it->cache == &mrt->mfc6_unres_queue) spin_unlock_bh(&mfc_unres_lock); - else if (it->cache == mrt->mfc6_cache_array) + else if (it->cache == &mrt->mfc6_cache_array[it->ct]) read_unlock(&mrt_lock); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from richard.laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.2/net-ipv6-correct-pim6-mrt_lock-handling.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html