Re: [PATCH 6.13 244/274] iavf: Fix a locking bug in an error path

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:28:18 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

6.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org

[ Upstream commit e589adf5b70c07b1ab974d077046fdbf583b2f36 ]

If the netdev lock has been obtained, unlock it before returning. This bug has been detected by the Clang thread-safety analyzer.

Fixes: afc664987ab3 ("eth: iavf: extend the netdev_lock usage") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250206175114.1974171-28-bvanassche@acm.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org

The blamed commit should not be backported