This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: sierra: fix AA deadlock in open error path to the 3.15-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: usb-sierra-fix-aa-deadlock-in-open-error-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 353fe198602e8b4d1c7bdcceb8e60955087201b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 19:22:50 +0200 Subject: USB: sierra: fix AA deadlock in open error path From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> commit 353fe198602e8b4d1c7bdcceb8e60955087201b1 upstream. Fix AA deadlock in open error path that would call close() and try to grab the already held disc_mutex. Fixes: b9a44bc19f48 ("sierra: driver urb handling improvements") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c | 21 +++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c @@ -816,14 +816,9 @@ static int sierra_open(struct tty_struct usb_sndbulkpipe(serial->dev, endpoint) | USB_DIR_IN); err = sierra_submit_rx_urbs(port, GFP_KERNEL); - if (err) { - /* get rid of everything as in close */ - sierra_close(port); - /* restore balance for autopm */ - if (!serial->disconnected) - usb_autopm_put_interface(serial->interface); - return err; - } + if (err) + goto err_submit; + sierra_send_setup(port); serial->interface->needs_remote_wakeup = 1; @@ -833,6 +828,16 @@ static int sierra_open(struct tty_struct usb_autopm_put_interface(serial->interface); return 0; + +err_submit: + sierra_stop_rx_urbs(port); + + for (i = 0; i < portdata->num_in_urbs; i++) { + sierra_release_urb(portdata->in_urbs[i]); + portdata->in_urbs[i] = NULL; + } + + return err; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jhovold@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.15/usb-sierra-fix-urb-and-memory-leak-in-resume-error-path.patch queue-3.15/usb-sierra-fix-aa-deadlock-in-open-error-path.patch queue-3.15/usb-usb_wwan-fix-urb-leak-at-shutdown.patch queue-3.15/usb-option-fix-runtime-pm-handling.patch queue-3.15/usb-sierra-fix-remote-wakeup.patch queue-3.15/usb-sierra-fix-urb-and-memory-leak-on-disconnect.patch queue-3.15/usb-sierra-fix-use-after-free-at-suspend-resume.patch queue-3.15/usb-usb_wwan-fix-write-and-suspend-race.patch queue-3.15/usb-usb_wwan-fix-potential-null-deref-at-resume.patch queue-3.15/usb-usb_wwan-fix-race-between-write-and-resume.patch queue-3.15/usb-usb_wwan-fix-potential-blocked-i-o-after-resume.patch queue-3.15/usb-usb_wwan-fix-urb-leak-in-write-error-path.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