This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled qed: Unlock on error in qed_vf_pf_acquire() 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: qed-unlock-on-error-in-qed_vf_pf_acquire.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 Thu Mar 22 14:40:23 CET 2018 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:56:09 +0300 Subject: qed: Unlock on error in qed_vf_pf_acquire() From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 66117a9d9a8ca948680d6554769ef9e88f936954 ] My static checker complains that we're holding a mutex on this error path. Let's goto exit instead of returning directly. Fixes: b0bccb69eba3 ("qed: Change locking scheme for VF channel") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@xxxxxxxxxx> 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/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static int qed_vf_pf_acquire(struct qed_ /* send acquire request */ rc = qed_send_msg2pf(p_hwfn, &resp->hdr.status, sizeof(*resp)); if (rc) - return rc; + goto exit; /* copy acquire response from buffer to p_hwfn */ memcpy(&p_iov->acquire_resp, resp, sizeof(p_iov->acquire_resp)); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/netfilter-x_tables-unlock-on-error-in-xt_find_table_lock.patch queue-4.9/asoc-intel-skylake-uninitialized-variable-in-probe_codec.patch queue-4.9/mmc-host-omap_hsmmc-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch queue-4.9/qed-unlock-on-error-in-qed_vf_pf_acquire.patch queue-4.9/hsi-ssi_protocol-double-free-in-ssip_pn_xmit.patch queue-4.9/cifs-small-underflow-in-cnvrtdosunixtm.patch queue-4.9/ib-rdmavt-restore-irqs-on-error-path-in-rvt_create_ah.patch