This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vmbus: don't acquire the mutex in vmbus_hvsock_device_unregister() to the 4.13-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: vmbus-don-t-acquire-the-mutex-in-vmbus_hvsock_device_unregister.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 33c150c2ee4a65a59190a124b45d05b1abf9478e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 23:41:47 -0700 Subject: vmbus: don't acquire the mutex in vmbus_hvsock_device_unregister() From: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 33c150c2ee4a65a59190a124b45d05b1abf9478e upstream. Due to commit 54a66265d675 ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix rescind handling"), we need this patch to resolve the below deadlock: after we get the mutex in vmbus_hvsock_device_unregister() and call vmbus_device_unregister() -> device_unregister() -> ... -> device_release() -> vmbus_device_release(), we'll get a deadlock, because vmbus_device_release() tries to get the same mutex. Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c +++ b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c @@ -922,14 +922,10 @@ static void vmbus_onoffer_rescind(struct void vmbus_hvsock_device_unregister(struct vmbus_channel *channel) { - mutex_lock(&vmbus_connection.channel_mutex); - BUG_ON(!is_hvsock_channel(channel)); channel->rescind = true; vmbus_device_unregister(channel->device_obj); - - mutex_unlock(&vmbus_connection.channel_mutex); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmbus_hvsock_device_unregister); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.13/vmbus-don-t-acquire-the-mutex-in-vmbus_hvsock_device_unregister.patch