In the function gsmtty_open(), the counter port->count is updated without holding the lock port->lock, which may lead to a data race. This possible data race is found by an experimental static analysis tool. This tool analyzes the locking APIs to deduce locking rules about which variable should be protected by which lock. And then the tool checks whether a given variable access violates the deduced locking rules, to detect data races. The above possible data race is reported, when the tool analyzes the source code of Linux 6.2. Referring to the function tty_port_open() in tty_port.c: spin_lock_irq(&port->lock); ++port->count; spin_unlock_irq(&port->lock); we add a lock/unlock pair to protect the access to port->count, to fix this possible data race. Fixes: 86176ed90545 ("TTY: n_gsm, use tty_port_install") Signed-off-by: Tuo Li <islituo@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/n_gsm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c b/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c index be35f7334ecd..b709f1a6bd2d 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c +++ b/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c @@ -4307,7 +4307,9 @@ static int gsmtty_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp) struct gsm_dlci *dlci = tty->driver_data; struct tty_port *port = &dlci->port; + spin_lock_irq(&port->lock); port->count++; + spin_unlock_irq(&port->lock); tty_port_tty_set(port, tty); dlci->modem_rx = 0; -- 2.43.0