Patch "batman-adv: set .owner to THIS_MODULE" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    batman-adv: set .owner to THIS_MODULE

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:
     batman-adv-set-.owner-to-this_module.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 Nov 23 01:39:02 PM CET 2021
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 13:39:35 +0100
Subject: batman-adv: set .owner to THIS_MODULE
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org, Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>, Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>, Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Message-ID: <20211120123939.260723-8-sven@narfation.org>

From: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>

commit 14a2e551faea53d45bc11629a9dac88f88950ca7 upstream.

If THIS_MODULE is not set, the module would be removed while debugfs is
being used.
It eventually makes kernel panic.

Fixes: c6c8fea29769 ("net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol")
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
[ bp: 4.4 backported: switch to old filename. ]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/batman-adv/debugfs.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/batman-adv/debugfs.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/debugfs.c
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ static const struct file_operations bata
 	.read           = batadv_log_read,
 	.poll           = batadv_log_poll,
 	.llseek         = no_llseek,
+	.owner          = THIS_MODULE,
 };
 
 static int batadv_debug_log_setup(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sven@narfation.org are

queue-4.4/batman-adv-consider-fragmentation-for-needed_headroom.patch
queue-4.4/ath9k-fix-potential-interrupt-storm-on-queue-reset.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-set-.owner-to-this_module.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-mcast-fix-duplicate-mcast-packets-from-bla-backbone-to-mesh.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-fix-multicast-tt-issues-with-bogus-roam-flags.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-mcast-fix-duplicate-mcast-packets-in-bla-backbone-from-lan.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-reserve-needed_-room-for-fragments.patch
queue-4.4/net-batman-adv-fix-error-handling.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-keep-fragments-equally-sized.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-avoid-warn_on-timing-related-checks.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-prevent-duplicated-softif_vlan-entry.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-don-t-always-reallocate-the-fragmentation-skb-head.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-mcast-fix-duplicate-mcast-packets-in-bla-backbone-from-mesh.patch