Patch "ipmi_ssif: unlock on allocation failure" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "ipmi_ssif: unlock on allocation failure" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    ipmi_ssif: unlock on allocation failure

to the 4.4-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:
     ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.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 Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 08:33:24 +0300
Subject: ipmi_ssif: unlock on allocation failure

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>


[ Upstream commit cf9806f32ef63b745f2486e0dbb2ac21f4ca44f0 ]

We should unlock and re-enable IRQs if this allocation fails.

Fixes: 259307074bfc ("ipmi: Add SMBus interface driver (SSIF) ")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
@@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ static void start_event_fetch(struct ssi
 	msg = ipmi_alloc_smi_msg();
 	if (!msg) {
 		ssif_info->ssif_state = SSIF_NORMAL;
+		ipmi_ssif_unlock_cond(ssif_info, flags);
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -431,6 +432,7 @@ static void start_recv_msg_fetch(struct
 	msg = ipmi_alloc_smi_msg();
 	if (!msg) {
 		ssif_info->ssif_state = SSIF_NORMAL;
+		ipmi_ssif_unlock_cond(ssif_info, flags);
 		return;
 	}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.4/block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.patch
queue-4.4/pnfs-flexfiles-missing-error-code-in-ff_layout_alloc_lseg.patch
queue-4.4/drivers-misc-vmw_vmci-vmci_queue_pair.c-fix-a-couple-integer-overflow-tests.patch
queue-4.4/md-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.patch
queue-4.4/ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.patch
queue-4.4/powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch
queue-4.4/libceph-null-deref-on-crush_decode-error-path.patch