This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: xhci: fix spinlock recursion for USB2 test mode to the 4.12-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-xhci-fix-spinlock-recursion-for-usb2-test-mode.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 576d55460e7f209139545a348746c2fcadf61bc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:48:30 +0300 Subject: usb: xhci: fix spinlock recursion for USB2 test mode From: Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxx> commit 576d55460e7f209139545a348746c2fcadf61bc3 upstream. Both xhci_hub_control and xhci_disable_slot tries to hold spinlock, the spinlock recursion occurs when enters USB2 test mode. Fix it by unlock spinlock before calling xhci_disable_slot. Fixes: 0f1d832ed1fb ("usb: xhci: Add port test modes support for usb2") Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/host/xhci-hub.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-hub.c +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-hub.c @@ -603,12 +603,14 @@ static int xhci_enter_test_mode(struct x /* Disable all Device Slots */ xhci_dbg(xhci, "Disable all slots\n"); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&xhci->lock, *flags); for (i = 1; i <= HCS_MAX_SLOTS(xhci->hcs_params1); i++) { retval = xhci_disable_slot(xhci, NULL, i); if (retval) xhci_err(xhci, "Failed to disable slot %d, %d. Enter test mode anyway\n", i, retval); } + spin_lock_irqsave(&xhci->lock, *flags); /* Put all ports to the Disable state by clear PP */ xhci_dbg(xhci, "Disable all port (PP = 0)\n"); /* Power off USB3 ports*/ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peter.chen@xxxxxxx are queue-4.12/usb-xhci-fix-spinlock-recursion-for-usb2-test-mode.patch