This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mtd: onenand: fix deadlock in onenand_block_markbad to the 3.14-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: mtd-onenand-fix-deadlock-in-onenand_block_markbad.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5e64c29e98bfbba1b527b0a164f9493f3db9e8cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:27:48 +0200 Subject: mtd: onenand: fix deadlock in onenand_block_markbad From: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> commit 5e64c29e98bfbba1b527b0a164f9493f3db9e8cb upstream. Commit 5942ddbc500d ("mtd: introduce mtd_block_markbad interface") incorrectly changed onenand_block_markbad() to call mtd_block_markbad instead of onenand_chip's block_markbad function. As a result the function will now recurse and deadlock. Fix by reverting the change. Fixes: 5942ddbc500d ("mtd: introduce mtd_block_markbad interface") Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c @@ -2606,6 +2606,7 @@ static int onenand_default_block_markbad */ static int onenand_block_markbad(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t ofs) { + struct onenand_chip *this = mtd->priv; int ret; ret = onenand_block_isbad(mtd, ofs); @@ -2617,7 +2618,7 @@ static int onenand_block_markbad(struct } onenand_get_device(mtd, FL_WRITING); - ret = mtd_block_markbad(mtd, ofs); + ret = this->block_markbad(mtd, ofs); onenand_release_device(mtd); return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx are queue-3.14/mtd-onenand-fix-deadlock-in-onenand_block_markbad.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