This patch eliminates the following smatch warning: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c:320 drm_master_release() warn: unlocked access 'master' (line 318) expected lock '&dev->master_mutex' The 'file_priv->master' field should be protected by the mutex lock to '&dev->master_mutex'. This is because other processes can concurrently modify this field and free the current 'file_priv->master' pointer. This could result in a use-after-free error when 'master' is dereferenced in subsequent function calls to 'drm_legacy_lock_master_cleanup()' or to 'drm_lease_revoke()'. An example of a scenario that would produce this error can be seen from a similar bug in 'drm_getunique()' that was reported by Syzbot: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=148d2f1dfac64af52ffd27b661981a540724f803 In the Syzbot report, another process concurrently acquired the device's master mutex in 'drm_setmaster_ioctl()', then overwrote 'fpriv->master' in 'drm_new_set_master()'. The old value of 'fpriv->master' was subsequently freed before the mutex was unlocked. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c index f00e5abdbbf4..b59b26a71ad5 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c @@ -315,9 +315,10 @@ int drm_master_open(struct drm_file *file_priv) void drm_master_release(struct drm_file *file_priv) { struct drm_device *dev = file_priv->minor->dev; - struct drm_master *master = file_priv->master; + struct drm_master *master; mutex_lock(&dev->master_mutex); + master = file_priv->master; if (file_priv->magic) idr_remove(&file_priv->master->magic_map, file_priv->magic); -- 2.25.1