Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
 
        DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: tun_chr_fasync %d\n", tun->dev->name, on);
 
+       lock_kernel();
        if ((ret = fasync_helper(fd, file, on, &tun->fasync)) < 0)
-               return ret;
+               goto out;
 
        if (on) {
                ret = __f_setown(file, task_pid(current), PIDTYPE_PID, 0);
                if (ret)
-                       return ret;
+                       goto out;
                tun->flags |= TUN_FASYNC;
        } else
                tun->flags &= ~TUN_FASYNC;
-
-       return 0;
+       ret = 0;
+out:
+       unlock_kernel();
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static int tun_chr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file * file)