From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33432 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751311AbcDPRJx (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2016 13:09:53 -0400 Subject: Patch "ppp: release rtnl mutex when interface creation fails" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: g.nault@alphalink.fr, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 10:06:55 -0700 Message-ID: <14608264159462@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ppp: release rtnl mutex when interface creation fails 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: ppp-release-rtnl-mutex-when-interface-creation-fails.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 know about it. >>From foo@baz Sat Apr 16 10:02:53 PDT 2016 From: Guillaume Nault Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 19:36:44 +0100 Subject: ppp: release rtnl mutex when interface creation fails From: Guillaume Nault [ Upstream commit 6faac63a6986f29ef39827f460edd3a5ba64ad5c ] Add missing rtnl_unlock() in the error path of ppp_create_interface(). Fixes: 58a89ecaca53 ("ppp: fix lockdep splat in ppp_dev_uninit()") Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -2803,6 +2803,7 @@ static struct ppp *ppp_create_interface( out2: mutex_unlock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex); + rtnl_unlock(); free_netdev(dev); out1: *retp = ret; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from g.nault@alphalink.fr are queue-4.4/ppp-release-rtnl-mutex-when-interface-creation-fails.patch queue-4.4/ppp-take-reference-on-channels-netns.patch queue-4.4/ppp-ensure-file-private_data-can-t-be-overridden.patch