This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tpm_crb: tpm2_shutdown() must be called before tpm_chip_unregister() to the 4.4-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: tpm_crb-tpm2_shutdown-must-be-called-before-tpm_chip_unregister.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 99cda8cb4639de81cde785b5bab9bc52e916e594 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:11:29 +0200 Subject: tpm_crb: tpm2_shutdown() must be called before tpm_chip_unregister() From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 99cda8cb4639de81cde785b5bab9bc52e916e594 upstream. Wrong call order. Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 74d6b3ceaa17 Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c @@ -310,11 +310,11 @@ static int crb_acpi_remove(struct acpi_d struct device *dev = &device->dev; struct tpm_chip *chip = dev_get_drvdata(dev); - tpm_chip_unregister(chip); - if (chip->flags & TPM_CHIP_FLAG_TPM2) tpm2_shutdown(chip, TPM2_SU_CLEAR); + tpm_chip_unregister(chip); + return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/tpm_crb-tpm2_shutdown-must-be-called-before-tpm_chip_unregister.patch queue-4.4/tpm-fix-the-cleanup-of-struct-tpm_chip.patch queue-4.4/tpm-fix-the-rollback-in-tpm_chip_register.patch queue-4.4/tpm_eventlog.c-fix-binary_bios_measurements.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