On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 07:05:50AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote: > Please backport the following changes to the 4.18 stable kernel: > > e1891cffd4c4 "ipmi: Make the smi watcher be disabled immediately when not needed" > 383035211c79 "ipmi: move message error checking to avoid deadlock" > > e1891cffd4c4 doesn't apply completely cleanly because of other changes, > but you just need to leave in the free_user_work() function and delete > the other function in the conflict. I can also supply a patch if > necessary. > > Change > > b4a34aa6d "ipmi: Fix how the lower layers are told to watch for messages" > > was backported to fullfill a dependency for another backport, but there > was another change: > > e1891cffd4c4 "ipmi: Make the smi watcher be disabled immediately when not needed" > > That is needed to avoid calling a lower layer function with > xmit_msgs_lock held. In addition to that, you will also need: > > 383035211c79 "ipmi: move message error checking to avoid deadlock" > > to fix a bug in that change. > > e1891cffd4c4 came in 5.1 and 383035211c79 came in 5.4 (and I believe was > backported) so everything should be good for 5.4 and later. b4a34aa6d > was not backported to 4.14, so it is also ok. So 4.19 is the only > kernel that needs the change. > > Thanks to Janne Huttunen for quick work on this. Thanks for this, both now queued up. greg k-h
