Patch "ppp: Destroy the mutex when cleanup" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "ppp: Destroy the mutex when cleanup" 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

    ppp: Destroy the mutex when cleanup

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-destroy-the-mutex-when-cleanup.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 Mon Dec 18 14:47:43 CET 2017
From: Gao Feng <gfree.wind@vip.163.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:25:37 +0800
Subject: ppp: Destroy the mutex when cleanup

From: Gao Feng <gfree.wind@vip.163.com>


[ Upstream commit f02b2320b27c16b644691267ee3b5c110846f49e ]

The mutex_destroy only makes sense when enable DEBUG_MUTEX. For the
good readbility, it's better to invoke it in exit func when the init
func invokes mutex_init.

Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <gfree.wind@vip.163.com>
Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 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
@@ -942,6 +942,7 @@ static __net_exit void ppp_exit_net(stru
 	unregister_netdevice_many(&list);
 	rtnl_unlock();
 
+	mutex_destroy(&pn->all_ppp_mutex);
 	idr_destroy(&pn->units_idr);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gfree.wind@vip.163.com are

queue-4.4/ppp-destroy-the-mutex-when-cleanup.patch