This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mei: return error on notification request to a disconnected client 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: mei-return-error-on-notification-request-to-a-disconnected-client.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 foo@baz Mon Nov 6 10:22:56 CET 2017 From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:37:48 +0000 Subject: mei: return error on notification request to a disconnected client From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 7c47d2ca0feca767479329da23523ed798acb854 ] Request for a notification from a disconnected client will be ignored silently by the FW but the caller should know that the operation hasn't succeeded. Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/mei/client.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/misc/mei/client.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/client.c @@ -1300,6 +1300,9 @@ int mei_cl_notify_request(struct mei_cl return -EOPNOTSUPP; } + if (!mei_cl_is_connected(cl)) + return -ENODEV; + rets = pm_runtime_get(dev->dev); if (rets < 0 && rets != -EINPROGRESS) { pm_runtime_put_noidle(dev->dev); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/mei-return-error-on-notification-request-to-a-disconnected-client.patch