From 1b11629737ca5414b0310d35e01a125cfde1ba4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Vetter Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:51:06 +0200 Subject: drm: Drop grab fpriv->fbs_lock in drm_fb_release Paulo Zanoni reported a lockdep splat with a locking inversion between fpriv->fbs_lock and the modeset locks. This issue was introduced in commit f2b50c1161590c3bcdbf3455fe4c575f1c1bd293 Author: Daniel Vetter Date: Fri Sep 12 17:07:32 2014 +0200 drm: Fixup locking for universal cursor planes This here is actually one of the rare cases where lockdep hits a false positive: The deadlock only happens in drm_fb_release, which cleans up the file private structure when all the references are gone. So the locking is the very last one and no one else can deadlock. It also doesn't protect anything at all, since all ioctls are guaranteed to have returned at this point - otherwise they'd still hold a reference on the file. So let's just drop it and replace it with a big comment. Cc: David Herrmann Cc: Matt Roper Cc: Paulo Zanoni Reported-and-Tested-by: Paulo Zanoni Reviewed-by: Matt Roper Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/gpu') diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c index b702106..e79c8d3 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c @@ -3400,7 +3400,16 @@ void drm_fb_release(struct drm_file *priv) struct drm_device *dev = priv->minor->dev; struct drm_framebuffer *fb, *tfb; - mutex_lock(&priv->fbs_lock); + /* + * When the file gets released that means no one else can access the fb + * list any more, so no need to grab fpriv->fbs_lock. And we need to to + * avoid upsetting lockdep since the universal cursor code adds a + * framebuffer while holding mutex locks. + * + * Note that a real deadlock between fpriv->fbs_lock and the modeset + * locks is impossible here since no one else but this function can get + * at it any more. + */ list_for_each_entry_safe(fb, tfb, &priv->fbs, filp_head) { mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.fb_lock); @@ -3413,7 +3422,6 @@ void drm_fb_release(struct drm_file *priv) /* This will also drop the fpriv->fbs reference. */ drm_framebuffer_remove(fb); } - mutex_unlock(&priv->fbs_lock); } /** -- cgit v1.1