This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: hwbm: Fix unbalanced spinlock in error case
to the 4.6-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-hwbm-fix-unbalanced-spinlock-in-error-case.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 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 Fri Jun 17 08:34:39 PDT 2016
From: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 18:03:26 +0200
Subject: net: hwbm: Fix unbalanced spinlock in error case
From: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit b388fc7405e901c7d6f7817d05193c054e761815 ]
When hwbm_pool_add exited in error the spinlock was not released. This
patch fixes this issue.
Fixes: 8cb2d8bf57e6 ("net: add a hardware buffer management helper API")
Reported-by: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/hwbm.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/net/core/hwbm.c
+++ b/net/core/hwbm.c
@@ -55,18 +55,21 @@ int hwbm_pool_add(struct hwbm_pool *bm_p
spin_lock_irqsave(&bm_pool->lock, flags);
if (bm_pool->buf_num == bm_pool->size) {
pr_warn("pool already filled\n");
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bm_pool->lock, flags);
return bm_pool->buf_num;
}
if (buf_num + bm_pool->buf_num > bm_pool->size) {
pr_warn("cannot allocate %d buffers for pool\n",
buf_num);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bm_pool->lock, flags);
return 0;
}
if ((buf_num + bm_pool->buf_num) < bm_pool->buf_num) {
pr_warn("Adding %d buffers to the %d current buffers will overflow\n",
buf_num, bm_pool->buf_num);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bm_pool->lock, flags);
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.6/net-hwbm-fix-unbalanced-spinlock-in-error-case.patch
queue-4.6/net-mvneta-fix-lacking-spinlock-initialization.patch
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