This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mailbox: skip complete wait event if timer expired 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-skip-complete-wait-event-if-timer-expired.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 cc6eeaa3029a6dbcb4ad41b1f92876483bd88965 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:30:15 +0000 Subject: mailbox: skip complete wait event if timer expired From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> commit cc6eeaa3029a6dbcb4ad41b1f92876483bd88965 upstream. If a wait_for_completion_timeout() call returns due to a timeout, complete() can get called after returning from the wait which is incorrect and can cause subsequent transmissions on a channel to fail. Since the wait_for_completion_timeout() sees the completion variable is non-zero caused by the erroneous/spurious complete() call, and it immediately returns without waiting for the time as expected by the client. This patch fixes the issue by skipping complete() call for the timer expiry. Fixes: 2b6d83e2b8b7 ("mailbox: Introduce framework for mailbox") Reported-by: Alexey Klimov <alexey.klimov@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@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 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c +++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static void tx_tick(struct mbox_chan *ch if (mssg && chan->cl->tx_done) chan->cl->tx_done(chan->cl, mssg, r); - if (chan->cl->tx_block) + if (r != -ETIME && chan->cl->tx_block) complete(&chan->tx_complete); } @@ -272,8 +272,8 @@ int mbox_send_message(struct mbox_chan * ret = wait_for_completion_timeout(&chan->tx_complete, wait); if (ret == 0) { - t = -EIO; - tx_tick(chan, -EIO); + t = -ETIME; + tx_tick(chan, t); } } 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