This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: serial: quatech2: fix sleep-while-atomic in close to the 4.9-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: usb-serial-quatech2-fix-sleep-while-atomic-in-close.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f09d1886a41e9063b43da493ef0e845ac8afd2fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:40:01 +0100 Subject: USB: serial: quatech2: fix sleep-while-atomic in close From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f09d1886a41e9063b43da493ef0e845ac8afd2fa upstream. The write URB was being killed using the synchronous interface while holding a spin lock in close(). Simply drop the lock and busy-flag update, something which would have been taken care of by the completion handler if the URB was in flight. Fixes: f7a33e608d9a ("USB: serial: add quatech2 usb to serial driver") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/quatech2.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/quatech2.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/quatech2.c @@ -408,16 +408,12 @@ static void qt2_close(struct usb_serial_ { struct usb_serial *serial; struct qt2_port_private *port_priv; - unsigned long flags; int i; serial = port->serial; port_priv = usb_get_serial_port_data(port); - spin_lock_irqsave(&port_priv->urb_lock, flags); usb_kill_urb(port_priv->write_urb); - port_priv->urb_in_use = false; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port_priv->urb_lock, flags); /* flush the port transmit buffer */ i = usb_control_msg(serial->dev, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/usb-serial-io_ti-fix-i-o-after-disconnect.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-ti_usb_3410_5052-fix-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-kobil_sct-fix-null-deref-in-write.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-spcp8x5-fix-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-mos7720-fix-parallel-probe.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-cyberjack-fix-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-mos7720-fix-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-failed-urb-submit.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-io_ti-fix-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-pl2303-fix-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-quatech2-fix-sleep-while-atomic-in-close.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-iuu_phoenix-fix-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-oti6858-fix-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-io_edgeport-fix-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-mos7720-fix-parport-use-after-free-on-probe-errors.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-mos7720-fix-use-after-free-on-probe-errors.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-mos7840-fix-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-omninet-fix-null-derefs-at-open-and-disconnect.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-keyspan_pda-verify-endpoints-at-probe.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-io_ti-fix-another-null-deref-at-open.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