Holding the mutex is not necessary while scanning the string passed into platform_profile_store(). Tested-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/platform_profile.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/platform_profile.c b/drivers/acpi/platform_profile.c index 4f5623fc27c09..45ffd85a71dd5 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/platform_profile.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/platform_profile.c @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ static ssize_t platform_profile_store(struct device *dev, { int err, i; + /* Scan for a matching profile */ + i = sysfs_match_string(profile_names, buf); + if (i < 0) + return -EINVAL; + err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&profile_lock); if (err) return err; @@ -92,13 +97,6 @@ static ssize_t platform_profile_store(struct device *dev, return -ENODEV; } - /* Scan for a matching profile */ - i = sysfs_match_string(profile_names, buf); - if (i < 0) { - mutex_unlock(&profile_lock); - return -EINVAL; - } - /* Check that platform supports this profile choice */ if (!test_bit(i, cur_profile->choices)) { mutex_unlock(&profile_lock); -- 2.43.0