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

    iio:accel:kxsd9 fix missing mutex unlock

to the 3.12-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:
     iio-accel-kxsd9-fix-missing-mutex-unlock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

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


>From 0ee005c7dc2803125275e24598f0fb37775a6af3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frank Zago <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:53:00 +0000
Subject: iio:accel:kxsd9 fix missing mutex unlock

From: Frank Zago <[email protected]>

commit 0ee005c7dc2803125275e24598f0fb37775a6af3 upstream.

This will leave a lock held after reading from the device, preventing
any further reads.

Signed-off-by: Frank Zago <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/iio/accel/kxsd9.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/iio/accel/kxsd9.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/accel/kxsd9.c
@@ -112,9 +112,10 @@ static int kxsd9_read(struct iio_dev *in
        mutex_lock(&st->buf_lock);
        st->tx[0] = KXSD9_READ(address);
        ret = spi_sync_transfer(st->us, xfers, ARRAY_SIZE(xfers));
-       if (ret)
-               return ret;
-       return (((u16)(st->rx[0])) << 8) | (st->rx[1] & 0xF0);
+       if (!ret)
+               ret = (((u16)(st->rx[0])) << 8) | (st->rx[1] & 0xF0);
+       mutex_unlock(&st->buf_lock);
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static IIO_CONST_ATTR(accel_scale_available,


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

queue-3.12/iio-accel-kxsd9-fix-missing-mutex-unlock.patch
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