This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: spi-axi: fix potential use-after-free after deregistration to the 4.9-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: spi-spi-axi-fix-potential-use-after-free-after-deregistration.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Wed Dec 6 17:39:55 CET 2017 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:35:27 +0100 Subject: spi: spi-axi: fix potential use-after-free after deregistration From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4d5e0689dc9d5640ad46cdfbe1896b74d8df1661 ] Take an extra reference to the controller before deregistering it to prevent use-after-free in the interrupt handler in case an interrupt fires before the line is disabled. Fixes: b1353d1c1d45 ("spi: Add Analog Devices AXI SPI Engine controller support") Acked-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c @@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ err_put_master: static int spi_engine_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) { - struct spi_master *master = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); + struct spi_master *master = spi_master_get(platform_get_drvdata(pdev)); struct spi_engine *spi_engine = spi_master_get_devdata(master); int irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); @@ -561,6 +561,8 @@ static int spi_engine_remove(struct plat free_irq(irq, master); + spi_master_put(master); + writel_relaxed(0xff, spi_engine->base + SPI_ENGINE_REG_INT_PENDING); writel_relaxed(0x00, spi_engine->base + SPI_ENGINE_REG_INT_ENABLE); writel_relaxed(0x01, spi_engine->base + SPI_ENGINE_REG_RESET); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/staging-greybus-loopback-fix-iteration-count-on-async-path.patch queue-4.9/spi-spi-axi-fix-potential-use-after-free-after-deregistration.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-option-add-quectel-bg96-id.patch