From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: m.szyprowski@samsung.com,hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org,s.nawrocki@samsung.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: samsung: exynos4-is: fix potential ABBA deadlock on" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:58:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026010542-mockup-flagstone-535a@gregkh> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 17dc8ccd6dd5ffe30aa9b0d36e2af1389344ce2b
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026010542-mockup-flagstone-535a@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 17dc8ccd6dd5ffe30aa9b0d36e2af1389344ce2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:46:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] media: samsung: exynos4-is: fix potential ABBA deadlock on
init
v4l2_device_register_subdev_nodes() must called without taking
media_dev->graph_mutex to avoid potential AB-BA deadlock on further
subdevice driver initialization.
Fixes: fa91f1056f17 ("[media] exynos4-is: Add support for asynchronous subdevices registration")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/samsung/exynos4-is/media-dev.c b/drivers/media/platform/samsung/exynos4-is/media-dev.c
index d6f7601de597..bc7087eb761a 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/samsung/exynos4-is/media-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/samsung/exynos4-is/media-dev.c
@@ -1399,12 +1399,14 @@ static int subdev_notifier_complete(struct v4l2_async_notifier *notifier)
mutex_lock(&fmd->media_dev.graph_mutex);
ret = fimc_md_create_links(fmd);
- if (ret < 0)
- goto unlock;
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ mutex_unlock(&fmd->media_dev.graph_mutex);
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ mutex_unlock(&fmd->media_dev.graph_mutex);
ret = v4l2_device_register_subdev_nodes(&fmd->v4l2_dev);
-unlock:
- mutex_unlock(&fmd->media_dev.graph_mutex);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
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2026-01-05 10:58 gregkh [this message]
2026-01-05 20:31 ` [PATCH 5.15.y] media: samsung: exynos4-is: fix potential ABBA deadlock on init Sasha Levin
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