The IO yurex_write() needs to wait for in order to have a device ready for writing again can take a long time time. Consequently the sleep is done in an interruptible state. Therefore others waiting for yurex_write() itself to finish should use mutex_lock_interruptible. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Fixes: 6bc235a2e24a5 ("USB: add driver for Meywa-Denki & Kayac YUREX") --- drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c b/drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c index 4a9859e03f6b..0deffdc8205f 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c @@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ static ssize_t yurex_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buffer, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { struct usb_yurex *dev; - int i, set = 0, retval = 0; + int i, set = 0, retval; char buffer[16 + 1]; char *data = buffer; unsigned long long c, c2 = 0; @@ -444,7 +444,10 @@ static ssize_t yurex_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buffer, if (count == 0) goto error; - mutex_lock(&dev->io_mutex); + retval = mutex_lock_interruptible(&dev->io_mutex); + if (retval < 0) + return -EINTR; + if (dev->disconnected) { /* already disconnected */ mutex_unlock(&dev->io_mutex); retval = -ENODEV; -- 2.46.1