This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iio: adc: meson-saradc: unlock on error in meson_sar_adc_lock() to the 4.15-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: iio-adc-meson-saradc-unlock-on-error-in-meson_sar_adc_lock.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3c3e4b3a708a9d6451052e348981f37d2b3e92b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 12:31:53 +0300 Subject: iio: adc: meson-saradc: unlock on error in meson_sar_adc_lock() From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 3c3e4b3a708a9d6451052e348981f37d2b3e92b0 upstream. The meson_sar_adc_lock() function is not supposed to hold the "indio_dev->mlock" on the error path. Fixes: 3adbf3427330 ("iio: adc: add a driver for the SAR ADC found in Amlogic Meson SoCs") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <Stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/adc/meson_saradc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/iio/adc/meson_saradc.c +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/meson_saradc.c @@ -462,8 +462,10 @@ static int meson_sar_adc_lock(struct iio regmap_read(priv->regmap, MESON_SAR_ADC_DELAY, &val); } while (val & MESON_SAR_ADC_DELAY_BL30_BUSY && timeout--); - if (timeout < 0) + if (timeout < 0) { + mutex_unlock(&indio_dev->mlock); return -ETIMEDOUT; + } } return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/iio-adc-meson-saradc-unlock-on-error-in-meson_sar_adc_lock.patch