Patch "Revert "usb: gadget: inode.c: fix unbalanced spin_lock in ep0_write"" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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

Revert "usb: gadget: inode.c: fix unbalanced spin_lock in ep0_write"

to the 3.18-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:
revert-usb-gadget-inode.c-fix-unbalanced-spin_lock-in-ep0_write.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:12:49 +0200
Subject: Revert "usb: gadget: inode.c: fix unbalanced spin_lock in ep0_write"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

This reverts commit abb540b5397674243994c5327146b6fed7339b71 which is commit b7bd98b7db9f upstream. I had added it to make another patch apply cleanly, but as Ben points out, that was wrong.

---
 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1231,10 +1231,11 @@ ep0_write (struct file *fd, const char _
 						dev->gadget->ep0, dev->req,
 						GFP_KERNEL);
 				}
-				spin_lock_irq(&dev->lock);
 				--dev->udc_usage;
 				if (retval < 0) {
+					spin_lock_irq (&dev->lock);
 					clean_req (dev->gadget->ep0, dev->req);
+					spin_unlock_irq (&dev->lock);
 				} else
 					retval = len;
 

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

queue-3.18/hid-usbhid-fix-out-of-bounds-bug.patch queue-3.18/ext4-in-ext4_seek_-hole-data-return-enxio-for-negative-offsets.patch queue-3.18/direct-io-prevent-null-pointer-access-in-submit_page_section.patch queue-3.18/alsa-caiaq-fix-stray-urb-at-probe-error-path.patch queue-3.18/kvm-nvmx-fix-guest-cr4-loading-when-emulating-l2-to-l1-exit.patch queue-3.18/alsa-seq-fix-missing-null-check-at-remove_events-ioctl.patch queue-3.18/usb-gadget-composite-fix-use-after-free-in-usb_composite_overwrite_options.patch queue-3.18/alsa-seq-fix-copy_from_user-call-inside-lock.patch queue-3.18/usb-serial-option-add-support-for-tp-link-lte-module.patch queue-3.18/usb-serial-cp210x-add-support-for-elv-tfd500.patch queue-3.18/usb-serial-qcserial-add-dell-dw5818-dw5819.patch queue-3.18/crypto-shash-fix-zero-length-shash-ahash-digest-crash.patch queue-3.18/usb-renesas_usbhs-fix-dmac-sequence-for-receiving-zero-length-packet.patch queue-3.18/revert-usb-gadget-inode.c-fix-unbalanced-spin_lock-in-ep0_write.patch queue-3.18/alsa-seq-fix-use-after-free-at-creating-a-port.patch queue-3.18/usb-serial-console-fix-use-after-free-after-failed-setup.patch queue-3.18/iommu-amd-finish-tlb-flush-in-amd_iommu_unmap.patch queue-3.18/cifs-reconnect-expired-smb-sessions.patch queue-3.18/fix-unbalanced-page-refcounting-in-bio_map_user_iov.patch queue-3.18/alsa-usb-audio-kill-stray-urb-at-exiting.patch