Patch "mei: fix deadlock on mei reset" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

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

mei: fix deadlock on mei reset

to the 4.10-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:
mei-fix-deadlock-on-mei-reset.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Tomas Winkler <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 21:40:41 +0200
Subject: mei: fix deadlock on mei reset

From: Tomas Winkler <[email protected]>

commit a733ded50b6ea846200073e7381a302df71e13b3 upstream.

This patch fixes 'mei: synchronize irq before initiating a reset' The patch had introduced a deadlock between irq thread and mei_reset() as they are both holding the same device lock.

---> device_lock:

	mei_reset()
                        <---- interrupt thread
	                        device_lock
---> synchornize_irq()
       wait on interrupt thread == (dead lock)

The fix is to call synchronize_irq
prior to call locked mei_reset function.

---
 drivers/misc/mei/init.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -124,8 +124,6 @@ int mei_reset(struct mei_device *dev)
 
 	mei_clear_interrupts(dev);
 
-	mei_synchronize_irq(dev);
-
 	/* we're already in reset, cancel the init timer
 	 * if the reset was called due the hbm protocol error
 	 * we need to call it before hw start

@@ -304,6 +302,9 @@ static void mei_reset_work(struct work_s
 		container_of(work, struct mei_device,  reset_work);
 	int ret;
 
+	mei_clear_interrupts(dev);
+	mei_synchronize_irq(dev);
+
 	mutex_lock(&dev->device_lock);
 
 	ret = mei_reset(dev);

@@ -328,6 +329,9 @@ void mei_stop(struct mei_device *dev)
 
 	mei_cancel_work(dev);
 
+	mei_clear_interrupts(dev);
+	mei_synchronize_irq(dev);
+
 	mutex_lock(&dev->device_lock);
 
 	dev->dev_state = MEI_DEV_POWER_DOWN;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.10/mei-fix-deadlock-on-mei-reset.patch queue-4.10/mei-don-t-wait-for-os-version-message-reply.patch