This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mei: bus: call mei_cl_read_start under device lock 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: mei-bus-call-mei_cl_read_start-under-device-lock.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 bc46b45a421a64a0895dd41a34d3d2086e1ac7f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 18:54:21 -0400 Subject: mei: bus: call mei_cl_read_start under device lock From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx> commit bc46b45a421a64a0895dd41a34d3d2086e1ac7f6 upstream. Ensure that mei_cl_read_start is called under the device lock also in the bus layer. The function updates global ctrl_wr_list which should be locked. Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/mei/bus.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c @@ -222,17 +222,23 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mei_cldev_recv); static void mei_cl_bus_event_work(struct work_struct *work) { struct mei_cl_device *cldev; + struct mei_device *bus; cldev = container_of(work, struct mei_cl_device, event_work); + bus = cldev->bus; + if (cldev->event_cb) cldev->event_cb(cldev, cldev->events, cldev->event_context); cldev->events = 0; /* Prepare for the next read */ - if (cldev->events_mask & BIT(MEI_CL_EVENT_RX)) + if (cldev->events_mask & BIT(MEI_CL_EVENT_RX)) { + mutex_lock(&bus->device_lock); mei_cl_read_start(cldev->cl, 0, NULL); + mutex_unlock(&bus->device_lock); + } } /** @@ -296,6 +302,7 @@ int mei_cldev_register_event_cb(struct m unsigned long events_mask, mei_cldev_event_cb_t event_cb, void *context) { + struct mei_device *bus = cldev->bus; int ret; if (cldev->event_cb) @@ -308,15 +315,17 @@ int mei_cldev_register_event_cb(struct m INIT_WORK(&cldev->event_work, mei_cl_bus_event_work); if (cldev->events_mask & BIT(MEI_CL_EVENT_RX)) { + mutex_lock(&bus->device_lock); ret = mei_cl_read_start(cldev->cl, 0, NULL); + mutex_unlock(&bus->device_lock); if (ret && ret != -EBUSY) return ret; } if (cldev->events_mask & BIT(MEI_CL_EVENT_NOTIF)) { - mutex_lock(&cldev->cl->dev->device_lock); + mutex_lock(&bus->device_lock); ret = mei_cl_notify_request(cldev->cl, NULL, event_cb ? 1 : 0); - mutex_unlock(&cldev->cl->dev->device_lock); + mutex_unlock(&bus->device_lock); if (ret) return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/mei-fix-null-dereferencing-during-fw-initiated-disconnection.patch queue-4.4/mei-amthif-discard-not-read-messages.patch queue-4.4/mei-bus-call-mei_cl_read_start-under-device-lock.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