On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 08:19:21PM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote: > This fixes a potential deadlock in case of a firmware > initiated reset > > mei_reset has a dialog with the interrupt thread hence > it has to be run from an another work item > > Most of the mei_resets were called from mei_hbm_dispatch > which is called in interrupt thread context so this > function underwent major revamp. The error code is > propagated to the interrupt thread and if needed > the reset is scheduled from there. > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/misc/mei/hbm.c | 200 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- > drivers/misc/mei/hbm.h | 6 +- > drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c | 32 ++++--- > drivers/misc/mei/init.c | 100 +++++++++++++--------- > drivers/misc/mei/interrupt.c | 9 +- > drivers/misc/mei/mei_dev.h | 1 + > 6 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 138 deletions(-) This is a _really_ big patch for a stable kernel tree. Are you sure it's needed there? Please go read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt again. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html