This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iio: light: opt3001: fix mutex unlock race to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-linus branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From 82f3015635249a8c8c45bac303fd84905066f04f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Frey <dpfrey@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:54:18 -0700 Subject: iio: light: opt3001: fix mutex unlock race When an end-of-conversion interrupt is received after performing a single-shot reading of the light sensor, the driver was waking up the result ready queue before checking opt->ok_to_ignore_lock to determine if it should unlock the mutex. The problem occurred in the case where the other thread woke up and changed the value of opt->ok_to_ignore_lock to false prior to the interrupt thread performing its read of the variable. In this case, the mutex would be unlocked twice. Signed-off-by: David Frey <dpfrey@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dannenberg <dannenberg@xxxxxx> Fixes: 94a9b7b1809f ("iio: light: add support for TI's opt3001 light sensor") Cc: <Stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/light/opt3001.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/opt3001.c b/drivers/iio/light/opt3001.c index e666879007d2..92004a2563ea 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/light/opt3001.c +++ b/drivers/iio/light/opt3001.c @@ -686,6 +686,7 @@ static irqreturn_t opt3001_irq(int irq, void *_iio) struct iio_dev *iio = _iio; struct opt3001 *opt = iio_priv(iio); int ret; + bool wake_result_ready_queue = false; if (!opt->ok_to_ignore_lock) mutex_lock(&opt->lock); @@ -720,13 +721,16 @@ static irqreturn_t opt3001_irq(int irq, void *_iio) } opt->result = ret; opt->result_ready = true; - wake_up(&opt->result_ready_queue); + wake_result_ready_queue = true; } out: if (!opt->ok_to_ignore_lock) mutex_unlock(&opt->lock); + if (wake_result_ready_queue) + wake_up(&opt->result_ready_queue); + return IRQ_HANDLED; } -- 2.23.0