This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipmi_ssif: unlock on allocation failure 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: ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.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 Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 08:33:24 +0300 Subject: ipmi_ssif: unlock on allocation failure From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cf9806f32ef63b745f2486e0dbb2ac21f4ca44f0 ] We should unlock and re-enable IRQs if this allocation fails. Fixes: 259307074bfc ("ipmi: Add SMBus interface driver (SSIF) ") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c @@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ static void start_event_fetch(struct ssi msg = ipmi_alloc_smi_msg(); if (!msg) { ssif_info->ssif_state = SSIF_NORMAL; + ipmi_ssif_unlock_cond(ssif_info, flags); return; } @@ -431,6 +432,7 @@ static void start_recv_msg_fetch(struct msg = ipmi_alloc_smi_msg(); if (!msg) { ssif_info->ssif_state = SSIF_NORMAL; + ipmi_ssif_unlock_cond(ssif_info, flags); return; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.patch queue-4.4/pnfs-flexfiles-missing-error-code-in-ff_layout_alloc_lseg.patch queue-4.4/drivers-misc-vmw_vmci-vmci_queue_pair.c-fix-a-couple-integer-overflow-tests.patch queue-4.4/md-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.patch queue-4.4/ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.patch queue-4.4/powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch queue-4.4/libceph-null-deref-on-crush_decode-error-path.patch