FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: rc: Fix ABBA deadlock by making locks more fine" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-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-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x c6d68866ad8aa1e957a3e5a6ede971148f1e3d59
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026110414-outsource-laxative-3178@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From c6d68866ad8aa1e957a3e5a6ede971148f1e3d59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:46:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] media: rc: Fix ABBA deadlock by making locks more fine
 grained

The ir_raw_event_unregister() function takes the ir_raw_handler_lock
first and then the rc_dev->lock. Other functions like change_protocol
do this in the reverse order.

This means that an ir decoder module unload and writing to the protocol
sysfs file can cause a deadlock.

ir_raw_handler_lock protects the client list, amongst other things.
Split this out into a separate lock so we can ensure the locking
order is always the same.

Fixes: 93cffffc18f6 ("[media] media: rc: fix decoder module unloading")
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c b/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c
index 54b323becb1f..75dee4a483d4 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include "rc-core-priv.h"
 
-/* Used to keep track of IR raw clients, protected by ir_raw_handler_lock */
+/* Used to keep track of IR raw clients, protected by ir_raw_client_lock */
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(ir_raw_client_lock);
 static LIST_HEAD(ir_raw_client_list);
 
 /* Used to handle IR raw handler extensions */
@@ -273,13 +274,6 @@ static int change_protocol(struct rc_dev *dev, u64 *rc_proto)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void ir_raw_disable_protocols(struct rc_dev *dev, u64 protocols)
-{
-	mutex_lock(&dev->lock);
-	dev->enabled_protocols &= ~protocols;
-	mutex_unlock(&dev->lock);
-}
-
 /**
  * ir_raw_gen_manchester() - Encode data with Manchester (bi-phase) modulation.
  * @ev:		Pointer to pointer to next free event. *@ev is incremented for
@@ -615,15 +609,18 @@ int ir_raw_event_register(struct rc_dev *dev)
 {
 	struct task_struct *thread;
 
+	/* Holding dev->lock could result in a dead-lock */
+	lockdep_assert_not_held(&dev->lock);
+
 	thread = kthread_run(ir_raw_event_thread, dev->raw, "rc%u", dev->minor);
 	if (IS_ERR(thread))
 		return PTR_ERR(thread);
 
 	dev->raw->thread = thread;
 
-	mutex_lock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);
+	mutex_lock(&ir_raw_client_lock);
 	list_add_tail(&dev->raw->list, &ir_raw_client_list);
-	mutex_unlock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&ir_raw_client_lock);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -656,16 +653,19 @@ void ir_raw_event_unregister(struct rc_dev *dev)
 	kthread_stop(dev->raw->thread);
 	timer_delete_sync(&dev->raw->edge_handle);
 
-	mutex_lock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);
+	mutex_lock(&ir_raw_client_lock);
 	list_del(&dev->raw->list);
+
+	mutex_lock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry(handler, &ir_raw_handler_list, list)
 		if (handler->raw_unregister &&
 		    (handler->protocols & dev->enabled_protocols))
 			handler->raw_unregister(dev);
 
 	lirc_bpf_free(dev);
-
 	mutex_unlock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);
+
+	mutex_unlock(&ir_raw_client_lock);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -688,15 +688,24 @@ void ir_raw_handler_unregister(struct ir_raw_handler *ir_raw_handler)
 	struct ir_raw_event_ctrl *raw;
 	u64 protocols = ir_raw_handler->protocols;
 
+	mutex_lock(&ir_raw_client_lock);
+
 	mutex_lock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);
 	list_del(&ir_raw_handler->list);
+	atomic64_andnot(protocols, &available_protocols);
+	mutex_unlock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);
+
 	list_for_each_entry(raw, &ir_raw_client_list, list) {
+		mutex_lock(&raw->dev->lock);
+		mutex_lock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);
 		if (ir_raw_handler->raw_unregister &&
 		    (raw->dev->enabled_protocols & protocols))
 			ir_raw_handler->raw_unregister(raw->dev);
-		ir_raw_disable_protocols(raw->dev, protocols);
+		raw->dev->enabled_protocols &= ~protocols;
+		mutex_unlock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);
+		mutex_unlock(&raw->dev->lock);
 	}
-	atomic64_andnot(protocols, &available_protocols);
-	mutex_unlock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);
+
+	mutex_unlock(&ir_raw_client_lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ir_raw_handler_unregister);