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| author | Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@gmail.com> | 2021-07-12 12:35:07 +0800 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2021-07-20 20:17:58 +0200 |
| commit | 0b0860a3cf5eccf183760b1177a1dcdb821b0b66 (patch) | |
| tree | d8893b9878ac83636e71fc5113443a8219d4968a /drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c | |
| parent | 1f7ef07cfa14fb8557d1f1b7a14c76926142a4fb (diff) | |
drm: serialize drm_file.master with a new spinlock
Currently, drm_file.master pointers should be protected by
drm_device.master_mutex when being dereferenced. This is because
drm_file.master is not invariant for the lifetime of drm_file. If
drm_file is not the creator of master, then drm_file.is_master is
false, and a call to drm_setmaster_ioctl will invoke
drm_new_set_master, which then allocates a new master for drm_file and
puts the old master.
Thus, without holding drm_device.master_mutex, the old value of
drm_file.master could be freed while it is being used by another
concurrent process.
However, it is not always possible to lock drm_device.master_mutex to
dereference drm_file.master. Through the fbdev emulation code, this
might occur in a deep nest of other locks. But drm_device.master_mutex
is also the outermost lock in the nesting hierarchy, so this leads to
potential deadlocks.
To address this, we introduce a new spin lock at the bottom of the
lock hierarchy that only serializes drm_file.master. With this change,
the value of drm_file.master changes only when both
drm_device.master_mutex and drm_file.master_lookup_lock are
held. Hence, any process holding either of those locks can ensure that
the value of drm_file.master will not change concurrently.
Since no lock depends on the new drm_file.master_lookup_lock, when
drm_file.master is dereferenced, but drm_device.master_mutex cannot be
held, we can safely protect the master pointer with
drm_file.master_lookup_lock.
Reported-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210712043508.11584-5-desmondcheongzx@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c index d4f0bac6f8f8..ceb1a9723855 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c @@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ struct drm_file *drm_file_alloc(struct drm_minor *minor) init_waitqueue_head(&file->event_wait); file->event_space = 4096; /* set aside 4k for event buffer */ + spin_lock_init(&file->master_lookup_lock); mutex_init(&file->event_read_lock); if (drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_GEM)) |