Before the patch the system required rebooting (driver crash and/or kernel panic). Now the application gets terminated. This follows the pattern in the other parts of this code that checks that pointer. Peter. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Wilson [mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:20 PM To: Antoine, Peter Cc: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; airlied@xxxxxxxxxx; dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/5] drm: Kernel Crash in drm_unlock On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 03:07:54PM +0100, Peter Antoine wrote: > This patch fixes a possible kernel crash when drm_unlock > (DRM_IOCTL_UNLOCK) is called by a application that has not had a lock > created by it. This crash can be caused by any application from all users. Crashing the application is still a crash... -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel