This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled i40e: remove a stray unlock to the 4.8-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: i40e-remove-a-stray-unlock.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From be0cb0a66a1d426f7cd9b170c008725044ae147a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:01:07 +0300 Subject: i40e: remove a stray unlock From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit be0cb0a66a1d426f7cd9b170c008725044ae147a upstream. We shifted the locking around a bit but forgot to delete this unlock so now it can unlock twice. Fixes: cd3be169a5ff ('i40e: Move the mutex lock in i40e_client_unregister') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c @@ -1009,7 +1009,6 @@ int i40e_unregister_client(struct i40e_c if (!i40e_client_is_registered(client)) { pr_info("i40e: Client %s has not been registered\n", client->name); - mutex_unlock(&i40e_client_mutex); ret = -ENODEV; goto out; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/i40e-remove-a-stray-unlock.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