This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ACPI/processor: Fix error handling in __acpi_processor_start()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: acpi-processor-fix-error-handling-in-__acpi_processor_start.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:57:32 CET 2018

From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:07:33 +0200 Subject: ACPI/processor: Fix error handling in __acpi_processor_start()

From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de

[ Upstream commit a5cbdf693a60d5b86d4d21dfedd90f17754eb273 ]

When acpi_install_notify_handler() fails the cooling device stays registered and the sysfs files created via acpi_pss_perf_init() are leaked and the function returns success.

Undo acpi_pss_perf_init() and return a proper error code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Fenghua Yu fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: Tony Luck tony.luck@intel.com Cc: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: Sebastian Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: Lai Jiangshan jiangshanlai@gmail.com Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org Cc: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" davem@davemloft.net Cc: Len Brown lenb@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170412201042.695499645@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c @@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ static int __acpi_processor_start(struct if (ACPI_SUCCESS(status)) return 0;

+ result = -ENODEV; + acpi_pss_perf_exit(pr, device); + err_power_exit: acpi_processor_power_exit(pr); return result;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@linutronix.de are

queue-4.4/acpi-processor-fix-error-handling-in-__acpi_processor_start.patch queue-4.4/acpi-processor-replace-racy-task-affinity-logic.patch queue-4.4/time-change-posix-clocks-ops-interfaces-to-use-timespec64.patch queue-4.4/genirq-use-irqd_get_trigger_type-to-compare-the-trigger-type-for-shared-irqs.patch queue-4.4/cpufreq-sh-replace-racy-task-affinity-logic.patch