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

    uwb: init beacon cache entry before registering uwb device

to the 3.14-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:
     uwb-init-beacon-cache-entry-before-registering-uwb-device.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

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


>From 675f0ab2fe5a0f7325208e60b617a5f32b86d72c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Pugliese <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:45:35 -0500
Subject: uwb: init beacon cache entry before registering uwb device

From: Thomas Pugliese <[email protected]>

commit 675f0ab2fe5a0f7325208e60b617a5f32b86d72c upstream.

Make sure the uwb_dev->bce entry is set before calling uwb_dev_add in
uwbd_dev_onair so that usermode will only see the device after it is
properly initialized.  This fixes a kernel panic that can occur if
usermode tries to access the IEs sysfs attribute of a UWB device before
the driver has had a chance to set the beacon cache entry.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pugliese <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/uwb/lc-dev.c |   13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/uwb/lc-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/uwb/lc-dev.c
@@ -431,16 +431,19 @@ void uwbd_dev_onair(struct uwb_rc *rc, s
        uwb_dev->mac_addr = *bce->mac_addr;
        uwb_dev->dev_addr = bce->dev_addr;
        dev_set_name(&uwb_dev->dev, "%s", macbuf);
+
+       /* plug the beacon cache */
+       bce->uwb_dev = uwb_dev;
+       uwb_dev->bce = bce;
+       uwb_bce_get(bce);               /* released in uwb_dev_sys_release() */
+
        result = uwb_dev_add(uwb_dev, &rc->uwb_dev.dev, rc);
        if (result < 0) {
                dev_err(dev, "new device %s: cannot instantiate device\n",
                        macbuf);
                goto error_dev_add;
        }
-       /* plug the beacon cache */
-       bce->uwb_dev = uwb_dev;
-       uwb_dev->bce = bce;
-       uwb_bce_get(bce);               /* released in uwb_dev_sys_release() */
+
        dev_info(dev, "uwb device (mac %s dev %s) connected to %s %s\n",
                 macbuf, devbuf, rc->uwb_dev.dev.parent->bus->name,
                 dev_name(rc->uwb_dev.dev.parent));
@@ -448,6 +451,8 @@ void uwbd_dev_onair(struct uwb_rc *rc, s
        return;
 
 error_dev_add:
+       bce->uwb_dev = NULL;
+       uwb_bce_put(bce);
        kfree(uwb_dev);
        return;
 }


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

queue-3.14/uwb-init-beacon-cache-entry-before-registering-uwb-device.patch
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