Hello Tadeusz Struk, The patch 9e1b74a63f77: "tpm: add support for nonblocking operation" from Sep 10, 2018, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c:222 tpm_common_write() warn: inconsistent returns 'priv->chip->tpm_mutex'. drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c 184 185 /* atomic tpm command send and result receive. We only hold the ops 186 * lock during this period so that the tpm can be unregistered even if 187 * the char dev is held open. 188 */ 189 if (tpm_try_get_ops(priv->chip)) { 190 ret = -EPIPE; 191 goto out; 192 } 193 194 priv->response_length = 0; 195 priv->response_read = false; 196 *off = 0; 197 198 /* 199 * If in nonblocking mode schedule an async job to send 200 * the command return the size. 201 * In case of error the err code will be returned in 202 * the subsequent read call. 203 */ 204 if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) { 205 priv->command_enqueued = true; 206 queue_work(tpm_dev_wq, &priv->async_work); 207 mutex_unlock(&priv->buffer_mutex); 208 return size; ^^^^^^^^^^^ Don't we need to do a tpm_put_ops(priv->chip) before returning? 209 } 210 211 ret = tpm_dev_transmit(priv->chip, priv->space, priv->data_buffer, 212 sizeof(priv->data_buffer)); 213 tpm_put_ops(priv->chip); 214 215 if (ret > 0) { 216 priv->response_length = ret; 217 mod_timer(&priv->user_read_timer, jiffies + (120 * HZ)); 218 ret = size; 219 } 220 out: 221 mutex_unlock(&priv->buffer_mutex); 222 return ret; 223 } regards, dan carpenter