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

    USB: cdc-wdm: call wake_up_all to allow driver to shutdown on device removal

to the 3.0-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:
     
usb-cdc-wdm-call-wake_up_all-to-allow-driver-to-shutdown-on-device-removal.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

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


>From 62aaf24dc125d7c55c93e313d15611f152b030c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rn=20Mork?= <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:11:57 +0100
Subject: USB: cdc-wdm: call wake_up_all to allow driver to shutdown on device 
removal
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From: Bjørn Mork <[email protected]>

commit 62aaf24dc125d7c55c93e313d15611f152b030c7 upstream.

wdm_disconnect() waits for the mutex held by wdm_read() before
calling wake_up_all().  This causes a deadlock, preventing device removal
to complete.  Do the wake_up_all() before we start waiting for the locks.

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <[email protected]>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c
@@ -786,13 +786,13 @@ static void wdm_disconnect(struct usb_in
        /* to terminate pending flushes */
        clear_bit(WDM_IN_USE, &desc->flags);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->iuspin, flags);
+       wake_up_all(&desc->wait);
        mutex_lock(&desc->rlock);
        mutex_lock(&desc->wlock);
        kill_urbs(desc);
        cancel_work_sync(&desc->rxwork);
        mutex_unlock(&desc->wlock);
        mutex_unlock(&desc->rlock);
-       wake_up_all(&desc->wait);
        if (!desc->count)
                cleanup(desc);
        mutex_unlock(&wdm_mutex);


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

queue-3.0/usb-cdc-wdm-use-two-mutexes-to-allow-simultaneous-read-and-write.patch
queue-3.0/usb-cdc-wdm-avoid-hanging-on-interface-with-no-usb_cdc_dmm_type.patch
queue-3.0/usb-cdc-wdm-call-wake_up_all-to-allow-driver-to-shutdown-on-device-removal.patch
queue-3.0/usb-cdc-wdm-updating-desc-length-must-be-protected-by-spin_lock.patch
queue-3.0/usb-cdc-wdm-better-allocate-a-buffer-that-is-at-least-as-big-as-we-tell-the-usb-core.patch
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