4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stefan Haberland <sth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 669f3765b755fd8739ab46ce3a9c6292ce8b3d2a ] During offline processing two worker threads are canceled without freeing the device reference which leads to a hanging offline process. Reviewed-by: Jan Hoeppner <hoeppner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c +++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c @@ -2032,8 +2032,11 @@ static int dasd_eckd_basic_to_ready(stru static int dasd_eckd_online_to_ready(struct dasd_device *device) { - cancel_work_sync(&device->reload_device); - cancel_work_sync(&device->kick_validate); + if (cancel_work_sync(&device->reload_device)) + dasd_put_device(device); + if (cancel_work_sync(&device->kick_validate)) + dasd_put_device(device); + return 0; };