Since the poll returns EPOLLIN base on the state of two variables, the response_read being false and the response_length > 0 the poll needs to take the buffer_mutex after it is woken up. Fixes: 9488585b21bef0df12 ("tpm: add support for partial reads") Reported-by: Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c index 5eecad233ea1..61e458d6f652 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c @@ -203,12 +203,14 @@ __poll_t tpm_common_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) __poll_t mask = 0; poll_wait(file, &priv->async_wait, wait); + mutex_lock(&priv->buffer_mutex); if (!priv->response_read || priv->response_length) mask = EPOLLIN | EPOLLRDNORM; else mask = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLWRNORM; + mutex_unlock(&priv->buffer_mutex); return mask; }