From: Mikulas Patocka Fix deadlock in fb_compat_ioctl. fb_compat_ioctl acquires a mutex and calls fb_ioctl that tries to acquire that mutex too. A regression added during BKL removal. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/video/fbmem.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/video/fbmem.c~framebuffer-compat_ioctl-deadlock drivers/video/fbmem.c --- a/drivers/video/fbmem.c~framebuffer-compat_ioctl-deadlock +++ a/drivers/video/fbmem.c @@ -1262,8 +1262,8 @@ fb_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsig case FBIOPUT_CON2FBMAP: arg = (unsigned long) compat_ptr(arg); case FBIOBLANK: - ret = fb_ioctl(file, cmd, arg); - break; + mutex_unlock(&info->lock); + return fb_ioctl(file, cmd, arg); case FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO: ret = fb_get_fscreeninfo(inode, file, cmd, arg); _