Hi Greg, I noticed that 3.18.125 added commit bc07ee33284a ('Revert "drm/i915: Fix mutex->owner inspection race under DEBUG_MUTEXES"'), which states that the reason it can be applied is: The core fix was applied in commit a63b03e2d2477586440741677ecac45bcf28d7b1 Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 6 10:29:35 2015 +0000 mutex: Always clear owner field upon mutex_unlock() (note the absence of stable@ tag) so we can now revert our band-aid commit 226e5ae9e5f910 for -next. but that the commit referenced wasn't also pulled in. Please consider pulling that one too if you're going to do another 3.18 stable release. Thanks, Tom