This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hippi: Fix a Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rr_close 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: hippi-fix-a-fix-a-possible-sleep-in-atomic-bug-in-rr_close.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 Fri Feb 23 11:58:50 CET 2018 From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:49:52 +0800 Subject: hippi: Fix a Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in rr_close From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 6e266610eb6553cfb7e7eb5d11914bd01509c406 ] The driver may sleep under a spinlock. The function call path is: rr_close (acquire the spinlock) free_irq --> may sleep To fix it, free_irq is moved to the place without holding the spinlock. This bug is found by my static analysis tool(DSAC) and checked by my code review. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/hippi/rrunner.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/hippi/rrunner.c +++ b/drivers/net/hippi/rrunner.c @@ -1381,8 +1381,8 @@ static int rr_close(struct net_device *d rrpriv->info_dma); rrpriv->info = NULL; - free_irq(pdev->irq, dev); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rrpriv->lock, flags); + free_irq(pdev->irq, dev); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/hippi-fix-a-fix-a-possible-sleep-in-atomic-bug-in-rr_close.patch