This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
spi: Fix crash with double message finalisation on error handling
to the 3.4-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:
spi-fix-crash-with-double-message-finalisation-on-error-handling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1f802f8249a0da536877842c43c7204064c4de8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:33:03 +0100
Subject: spi: Fix crash with double message finalisation on error handling
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 1f802f8249a0da536877842c43c7204064c4de8b upstream.
This reverts commit e120cc0dcf2880a4c5c0a6cb27b655600a1cfa1d.
It causes a NULL pointer dereference with drivers using the generic
spi_transfer_one_message(), which always calls
spi_finalize_current_message(), which zeroes master->cur_msg.
Drivers implementing transfer_one_message() theirselves must always call
spi_finalize_current_message(), even if the transfer failed:
* @transfer_one_message: the subsystem calls the driver to transfer a single
* message while queuing transfers that arrive in the meantime. When the
* driver is finished with this message, it must call
* spi_finalize_current_message() so the subsystem can issue the next
* transfer
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/spi/spi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c
@@ -572,9 +572,7 @@ static void spi_pump_messages(struct kth
ret = master->transfer_one_message(master, master->cur_msg);
if (ret) {
dev_err(&master->dev,
- "failed to transfer one message from queue: %d\n", ret);
- master->cur_msg->status = ret;
- spi_finalize_current_message(master);
+ "failed to transfer one message from queue\n");
return;
}
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/spi-fix-crash-with-double-message-finalisation-on-error-handling.patch
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