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

rxrpc: The mutex lock returned by rxrpc_accept_call() needs releasing

to the 4.14-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: rxrpc-the-mutex-lock-returned-by-rxrpc_accept_call-needs-releasing.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Feb 1 13:45:42 CET 2018

From: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:18:40 +0000 Subject: rxrpc: The mutex lock returned by rxrpc_accept_call() needs releasing

From: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com

[ Upstream commit 03a6c82218b9a87014b2c6c4e178294fdc8ebd8a ]

The caller of rxrpc_accept_call() must release the lock on call->user_mutex returned by that function.

Signed-off-by: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c +++ b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c @@ -563,8 +563,8 @@ int rxrpc_do_sendmsg(struct rxrpc_sock * /* The socket is now unlocked. */ if (IS_ERR(call)) return PTR_ERR(call); - rxrpc_put_call(call, rxrpc_call_put); - return 0; + ret = 0; + goto out_put_unlock; }

call = rxrpc_find_call_by_user_ID(rx, p.user_call_ID); @@ -633,6 +633,7 @@ int rxrpc_do_sendmsg(struct rxrpc_sock * ret = rxrpc_send_data(rx, call, msg, len, NULL); }

+out_put_unlock: mutex_unlock(&call->user_mutex); error_put: rxrpc_put_call(call, rxrpc_call_put);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dhowells@redhat.com are

queue-4.14/rxrpc-the-mutex-lock-returned-by-rxrpc_accept_call-needs-releasing.patch queue-4.14/rxrpc-provide-a-different-lockdep-key-for-call-user_mutex-for-kernel-calls.patch queue-4.14/rxrpc-fix-service-endpoint-expiry.patch