This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm-ccn: perf: Prevent module unload while PMU is in use to the 4.14-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: arm-ccn-perf-prevent-module-unload-while-pmu-is-in-use.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Dec 18 13:28:59 CET 2017 From: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 11:45:18 +0000 Subject: arm-ccn: perf: Prevent module unload while PMU is in use From: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c7f5828bf77dcbd61d51f4736c1d5aa35663fbb4 ] When the PMU driver is built as a module, the perf expects the pmu->module to be valid, so that the driver is prevented from being unloaded while it is in use. Fix the CCN pmu driver to fill in this field. Fixes: a33b0daab73a0 ("bus: ARM CCN PMU driver") Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/bus/arm-ccn.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/bus/arm-ccn.c +++ b/drivers/bus/arm-ccn.c @@ -1280,6 +1280,7 @@ static int arm_ccn_pmu_init(struct arm_c /* Perf driver registration */ ccn->dt.pmu = (struct pmu) { + .module = THIS_MODULE, .attr_groups = arm_ccn_pmu_attr_groups, .task_ctx_nr = perf_invalid_context, .event_init = arm_ccn_pmu_event_init, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx are queue-4.14/arm-ccn-perf-prevent-module-unload-while-pmu-is-in-use.patch