This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mei: set client's read_cb to NULL when flow control fails to the 3.10-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: mei-set-client-s-read_cb-to-null-when-flow-control-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From accb884b32e82f943340688c9cd30290531e73e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chao Bi <chao.bi@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:27:25 +0200 Subject: mei: set client's read_cb to NULL when flow control fails From: Chao Bi <chao.bi@xxxxxxxxx> commit accb884b32e82f943340688c9cd30290531e73e0 upstream. In mei_cl_read_start(), if it fails to send flow control request, it will release "cl->read_cb" but forget to set pointer to NULL, leaving "cl->read_cb" still pointing to random memory, next time this client is operated like mei_release(), it has chance to refer to this wrong pointer. Fixes: PANIC at kfree in mei_release() [228781.826904] Call Trace: [228781.829737] [<c16249b8>] ? mei_cl_unlink+0x48/0xa0 [228781.835283] [<c1624487>] mei_io_cb_free+0x17/0x30 [228781.840733] [<c16265d8>] mei_release+0xa8/0x180 [228781.845989] [<c135c610>] ? __fsnotify_parent+0xa0/0xf0 [228781.851925] [<c1325a69>] __fput+0xd9/0x200 [228781.856696] [<c1325b9d>] ____fput+0xd/0x10 [228781.861467] [<c125cae1>] task_work_run+0x81/0xb0 [228781.866821] [<c1242e53>] do_exit+0x283/0xa00 [228781.871786] [<c1a82b36>] ? kprobe_flush_task+0x66/0xc0 [228781.877722] [<c124eeb8>] ? __dequeue_signal+0x18/0x1a0 [228781.883657] [<c124f072>] ? dequeue_signal+0x32/0x190 [228781.889397] [<c1243744>] do_group_exit+0x34/0xa0 [228781.894750] [<c12517b6>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x206/0x610 [228781.901075] [<c12018d8>] do_signal+0x38/0x100 [228781.906136] [<c1626d1c>] ? mei_read+0x42c/0x4e0 [228781.911393] [<c12600a0>] ? wake_up_bit+0x30/0x30 [228781.916745] [<c16268f0>] ? mei_poll+0x120/0x120 [228781.922001] [<c1324be9>] ? vfs_read+0x89/0x160 [228781.927158] [<c16268f0>] ? mei_poll+0x120/0x120 [228781.932414] [<c133ca34>] ? fget_light+0x44/0xe0 [228781.937670] [<c1324e58>] ? SyS_read+0x68/0x80 [228781.942730] [<c12019f5>] do_notify_resume+0x55/0x70 [228781.948376] [<c1a7de5d>] work_notifysig+0x29/0x30 [228781.953827] [<c1a70000>] ? bad_area+0x5/0x3e Signed-off-by: Chao Bi <chao.bi@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/mei/client.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/misc/mei/client.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/client.c @@ -664,7 +664,6 @@ int mei_cl_read_start(struct mei_cl *cl, goto err; cb->fop_type = MEI_FOP_READ; - cl->read_cb = cb; if (dev->hbuf_is_ready) { dev->hbuf_is_ready = false; if (mei_hbm_cl_flow_control_req(dev, cl)) { @@ -675,6 +674,9 @@ int mei_cl_read_start(struct mei_cl *cl, } else { list_add_tail(&cb->list, &dev->ctrl_wr_list.list); } + + cl->read_cb = cb; + return rets; err: mei_io_cb_free(cb); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chao.bi@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/mei-set-client-s-read_cb-to-null-when-flow-control-fails.patch -- 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