Say I'm an EU company. I use a small bit of GPL code in the course of my business, and I see a problem with it, so I change the code, fix the bug/add a feature/

Say I'm an EU company. I use a small bit of GPL code in the course of my business, and I see a problem with it, so I change the code, fix the bug/add a feature/etc, push it back, does that count profiting from it? I could instead not push it back, which is less immediate risk