This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cxl: Unlock on error in probe 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: cxl-unlock-on-error-in-probe.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 Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 08:34:58 +0300 Subject: cxl: Unlock on error in probe From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 58d876fa7181f2f393190c1d32c056b5a9d34aa2 ] We should unlock if get_cxl_adapter() fails. Fixes: 594ff7d067ca ("cxl: Support to flash a new image on the adapter from a guest") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/cxl/flash.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/misc/cxl/flash.c +++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/flash.c @@ -401,8 +401,10 @@ static int device_open(struct inode *ino if (down_interruptible(&sem) != 0) return -EPERM; - if (!(adapter = get_cxl_adapter(adapter_num))) - return -ENODEV; + if (!(adapter = get_cxl_adapter(adapter_num))) { + rc = -ENODEV; + goto err_unlock; + } file->private_data = adapter; continue_token = 0; @@ -446,6 +448,8 @@ err1: free_page((unsigned long) le); err: put_device(&adapter->dev); +err_unlock: + up(&sem); return rc; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.patch queue-4.9/x.509-fix-error-code-in-x509_cert_parse.patch queue-4.9/rdma-iw_cxgb4-avoid-touch-after-free-error-in-arp-failure-handlers.patch queue-4.9/drm-amdkfd-null-dereference-involving-create_process.patch queue-4.9/pnfs-flexfiles-missing-error-code-in-ff_layout_alloc_lseg.patch queue-4.9/drivers-misc-vmw_vmci-vmci_queue_pair.c-fix-a-couple-integer-overflow-tests.patch queue-4.9/cxl-unlock-on-error-in-probe.patch queue-4.9/md-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.patch queue-4.9/ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.patch queue-4.9/powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch queue-4.9/perf-core-fix-error-handling-in-perf_event_alloc.patch queue-4.9/libceph-null-deref-on-crush_decode-error-path.patch