Userspace can guess the id value and try to race oa_config object creation with config remove, resulting in a use-after-free if we dereference the object after unlocking the metrics_lock. For that reason, unlocking the metrics_lock must be done after we are done dereferencing the object. Signed-off-by: Min Li <lm0963hack@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c index 824a34ec0b83..93748ca2c5da 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c @@ -4634,13 +4634,13 @@ int i915_perf_add_config_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, err = oa_config->id; goto sysfs_err; } - - mutex_unlock(&perf->metrics_lock); + id = oa_config->id; drm_dbg(&perf->i915->drm, "Added config %s id=%i\n", oa_config->uuid, oa_config->id); + mutex_unlock(&perf->metrics_lock); - return oa_config->id; + return id; sysfs_err: mutex_unlock(&perf->metrics_lock); -- 2.25.1