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Tomas Winkler committed 34f1166afd6
mei: bus: need to unlink client before freeing In case a client fails to connect in mei_cldev_enable(), the caller won't call the mei_cldev_disable leaving the client in a linked stated. Upon driver unload the client structure will be freed in mei_cl_bus_dev_release(), leaving a stale pointer on a fail_list. This will eventually end up in crash during power down flow in mei_cl_set_disonnected(). RIP: mei_cl_set_disconnected+0x5/0x260[mei] Call trace: mei_cl_all_disconnect+0x22/0x30 mei_reset+0x194/0x250 __synchronize_hardirq+0x43/0x50 _cond_resched+0x15/0x30 mei_me_intr_clear+0x20/0x100 mei_stop+0x76/0xb0 mei_me_shutdown+0x3f/0x80 pci_device_shutdown+0x34/0x60 kernel_restart+0x0e/0x30 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200455 Fixes: 'c110cdb17148 ("mei: bus: make a client pointer always available")' Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> 4.10+ Tested-by: Georg Müller <georgmueller@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>