This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled uwb: init beacon cache entry before registering uwb device to the 3.14-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: uwb-init-beacon-cache-entry-before-registering-uwb-device.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 675f0ab2fe5a0f7325208e60b617a5f32b86d72c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Pugliese <thomas.pugliese@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:45:35 -0500 Subject: uwb: init beacon cache entry before registering uwb device From: Thomas Pugliese <thomas.pugliese@xxxxxxxxx> commit 675f0ab2fe5a0f7325208e60b617a5f32b86d72c upstream. Make sure the uwb_dev->bce entry is set before calling uwb_dev_add in uwbd_dev_onair so that usermode will only see the device after it is properly initialized. This fixes a kernel panic that can occur if usermode tries to access the IEs sysfs attribute of a UWB device before the driver has had a chance to set the beacon cache entry. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pugliese <thomas.pugliese@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/uwb/lc-dev.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/uwb/lc-dev.c +++ b/drivers/uwb/lc-dev.c @@ -431,16 +431,19 @@ void uwbd_dev_onair(struct uwb_rc *rc, s uwb_dev->mac_addr = *bce->mac_addr; uwb_dev->dev_addr = bce->dev_addr; dev_set_name(&uwb_dev->dev, "%s", macbuf); + + /* plug the beacon cache */ + bce->uwb_dev = uwb_dev; + uwb_dev->bce = bce; + uwb_bce_get(bce); /* released in uwb_dev_sys_release() */ + result = uwb_dev_add(uwb_dev, &rc->uwb_dev.dev, rc); if (result < 0) { dev_err(dev, "new device %s: cannot instantiate device\n", macbuf); goto error_dev_add; } - /* plug the beacon cache */ - bce->uwb_dev = uwb_dev; - uwb_dev->bce = bce; - uwb_bce_get(bce); /* released in uwb_dev_sys_release() */ + dev_info(dev, "uwb device (mac %s dev %s) connected to %s %s\n", macbuf, devbuf, rc->uwb_dev.dev.parent->bus->name, dev_name(rc->uwb_dev.dev.parent)); @@ -448,6 +451,8 @@ void uwbd_dev_onair(struct uwb_rc *rc, s return; error_dev_add: + bce->uwb_dev = NULL; + uwb_bce_put(bce); kfree(uwb_dev); return; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thomas.pugliese@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/uwb-init-beacon-cache-entry-before-registering-uwb-device.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