If a process is interrupted while accessing the "gpu" debugfs file and the drm device struct_mutex is contended, release() could return early and fail to free related resources. Note that the return value from release() is ignored. Fixes: 4f776f4511c7 ("drm/msm/gpu: Convert the GPU show function to use the GPU state") Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.18 Cc: Jordan Crouse <jcrouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_debugfs.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_debugfs.c index 6be879578140..1c74381a4fc9 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_debugfs.c @@ -47,12 +47,8 @@ static int msm_gpu_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) struct msm_gpu_show_priv *show_priv = m->private; struct msm_drm_private *priv = show_priv->dev->dev_private; struct msm_gpu *gpu = priv->gpu; - int ret; - - ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&show_priv->dev->struct_mutex); - if (ret) - return ret; + mutex_lock(&show_priv->dev->struct_mutex); gpu->funcs->gpu_state_put(show_priv->state); mutex_unlock(&show_priv->dev->struct_mutex); -- 2.23.0