On Fri, 12 Dec 2025, Jinhui Guo wrote:

> Commit a4e772898f8b ("PCI: Add missing bridge lock to pci_bus_lock()")
> delegates the bridge device's pci_dev_trylock() to pci_bus_trylock() in
> pci_slot_trylock(), but it forgets to remove the corresponding
> pci_dev_unlock() when pci_bus_trylock() fails.
> 
> Before the commit, the code did:
> 
>   if (!pci_dev_trylock(dev)) /* <- lock bridge device */
>     goto unlock;
>   if (dev->subordinate) {
>     if (!pci_bus_trylock(dev->subordinate)) {
>       pci_dev_unlock(dev);   /* <- unlock bridge device */
>       goto unlock;
>     }
>   }
> 
> After the commit the bridge-device lock is no longer taken, but the
> pci_dev_unlock(dev) on the failure path was left in place, leading to
> the bug.
> 
> This yields one of two errors:
> 1. A warning that the lock is being unlocked when no one holds it.
> 2. An incorrect unlock of a lock that belongs to another thread.
> 
> Fix it by removing the now-redundant pci_dev_unlock(dev) on the failure
> path.
> 
> Fixes: a4e772898f8b ("PCI: Add missing bridge lock to pci_bus_lock()")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jinhui Guo <guojinhui.liam@bytedance.com>
> Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>

Please don't make tags like this unless the other people explicitly give 
them to the patch.

Other than that, this looks okay to me.

-- 
 i.

> ---
> 
> Hi, all
> 
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251211123635.2215-1-guojinhui.liam@bytedance.com/
> 
> Changelog in v1 -> v2
>  - The v1 commit message was too brief, so I’ve sent v2 with more detail.
>  - Remove the braces from the if (!pci_bus_trylock(dev->subordinate)) statement.
> 
> Sorry for the noise.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Jinhui
> 
>  drivers/pci/pci.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> index 13dbb405dc31..59319e08fca6 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> @@ -5346,10 +5346,8 @@ static int pci_slot_trylock(struct pci_slot *slot)
>  		if (!dev->slot || dev->slot != slot)
>  			continue;
>  		if (dev->subordinate) {
> -			if (!pci_bus_trylock(dev->subordinate)) {
> -				pci_dev_unlock(dev);
> +			if (!pci_bus_trylock(dev->subordinate))
>  				goto unlock;
> -			}
>  		} else if (!pci_dev_trylock(dev))
>  			goto unlock;
>  	}
>