This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mailbox: always wait in mbox_send_message for blocking Tx mode 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: mailbox-always-wait-in-mbox_send_message-for-blocking-tx-mode.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 c61b781ee084e69855477d23dd33e7e6caad652c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:30:14 +0000 Subject: mailbox: always wait in mbox_send_message for blocking Tx mode From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> commit c61b781ee084e69855477d23dd33e7e6caad652c upstream. There exists a race when msg_submit return immediately as there was an active request being processed which may have completed just before it's checked again in mbox_send_message. This will result in return to the caller without waiting in mbox_send_message even when it's blocking Tx. This patch fixes the issue by waiting for the completion always if Tx is in blocking mode. Fixes: 2b6d83e2b8b7 ("mailbox: Introduce framework for mailbox") Reported-by: Alexey Klimov <alexey.klimov@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Alexey Klimov <alexey.klimov@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c +++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ int mbox_send_message(struct mbox_chan * msg_submit(chan); - if (chan->cl->tx_block && chan->active_req) { + if (chan->cl->tx_block) { unsigned long wait; int ret; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/mailbox-always-wait-in-mbox_send_message-for-blocking-tx-mode.patch queue-4.4/mailbox-skip-complete-wait-event-if-timer-expired.patch queue-4.4/mailbox-handle-empty-message-in-tx_tick.patch