[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "TPM: revert the list handling logic fixed in 398a1e7" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    TPM: revert the list handling logic fixed in 398a1e7

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt1.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 19:55:29 +0200
Subject: TPM: revert the list handling logic fixed in 398a1e7

commit b1a4144a695ff4a6834a2680600f36f991fa4926 upstream.

Mimi reported that afb5abc reverts the fix in 398a1e7. This patch
reverts it back.

Fixes: afb5abc262e9 ("tpm: two-phase chip management functions")
Reported-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Huewe <PeterHuewe at gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
index 1082d4b..0f8623d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ int tpm_chip_register(struct tpm_chip *chip)

 	/* Make the chip available. */
 	spin_lock(&driver_lock);
-	list_add_rcu(&chip->list, &tpm_chip_list);
+	list_add_tail_rcu(&chip->list, &tpm_chip_list);
 	spin_unlock(&driver_lock);

 	chip->flags |= TPM_CHIP_FLAG_REGISTERED;
--
1.9.1