The tz->lock must be hold during the looping over the instances in that thermal zone. This lock was missing in the governor code since the beginning, so it's hard to point into a particular commit. CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.4+ Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/thermal/gov_fair_share.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/thermal/gov_fair_share.c b/drivers/thermal/gov_fair_share.c index aaa07180ab48..645432ce6365 100644 --- a/drivers/thermal/gov_fair_share.c +++ b/drivers/thermal/gov_fair_share.c @@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ static int fair_share_throttle(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip) int total_instance = 0; int cur_trip_level = get_trip_level(tz); + mutex_lock(&tz->lock); + list_for_each_entry(instance, &tz->thermal_instances, tz_node) { if (instance->trip != trip) continue; @@ -110,6 +112,8 @@ static int fair_share_throttle(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip) mutex_unlock(&instance->cdev->lock); thermal_cdev_update(cdev); } + + mutex_unlock(&tz->lock); return 0; } -- 2.17.1