Re: [char-misc 4.2] mei: nfc: fix deadlock on shutdown/suspend path

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 02:40:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In function mei_nfc_host_exit mei_cl_remove_device cannot be called
> > under the device mutex as device removing flow invokes the device driver
> > remove handler that calls in turn to mei_cl_disable_device which
> > naturally acquires the device mutex.
> 
> Yup, tested and confirmed. This patch fixes things for me without the
> revert. Thanks.
> 
> Greg, should I just apply it directly, or do we go through your tree?

Feel free to take it directly, that way it fixes your laptop now, I
don't have any other pending char-misc patches at the moment.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,

greg k-h
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