On the EINVAL case we don't release struct_mutex. It should be safe to grab the lock after checking the parameters, which also resolves the issues. Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c index 365a7dc..76bbb37 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c @@ -3218,10 +3218,6 @@ int i915_gem_set_caching_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, enum i915_cache_level level; int ret; - ret = i915_mutex_lock_interruptible(dev); - if (ret) - return ret; - switch (args->caching) { case I915_CACHING_NONE: level = I915_CACHE_NONE; @@ -3233,6 +3229,10 @@ int i915_gem_set_caching_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, return -EINVAL; } + ret = i915_mutex_lock_interruptible(dev); + if (ret) + return ret; + obj = to_intel_bo(drm_gem_object_lookup(dev, file, args->handle)); if (&obj->base == NULL) { ret = -ENOENT; -- 1.7.12.1