4.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnel...@au1.ibm.com> commit 7c26b9cf5347c24272152438cdd9675183804425 upstream. If we open a context but do not start it (either because we do not attempt to start it, or because it fails to start for some reason), we are left with a context in state OPENED. Previously, cxl_release_context() only allowed releasing contexts in state CLOSED, so attempting to release an OPENED context would fail. In particular, this bug causes available contexts to run out after some EEH failures, where drivers attempt to release contexts that have failed to start. Allow releasing contexts in any state with a value lower than STARTED, i.e. OPENED or CLOSED (we can't release a STARTED context as it's currently using the hardware, and we assume that contexts in any new states which may be added in future with a value higher than STARTED are also unsafe to release). Fixes: 6f7f0b3df6d4 ("cxl: Add AFU virtual PHB and kernel API") Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnel...@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <d...@axtens.net> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imun...@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/misc/cxl/api.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c +++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cxl_get_phys_dev); int cxl_release_context(struct cxl_context *ctx) { - if (ctx->status != CLOSED) + if (ctx->status >= STARTED) return -EBUSY; put_device(&ctx->afu->dev); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/