From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_K=c3=b6nig?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-fence: fix dma_fence_get_rcu_safe Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:06:50 +0200 Message-ID: <3c412ee3-854a-292a-e036-7c5fd7888979@amd.com> References: <1504531653-13779-1-git-send-email-deathsimple@vodafone.de> <150453243791.23157.6907537389223890207@mail.alporthouse.com> <67fe7e05-7743-40c8-558b-41b08eb986e9@amd.com> <150512037119.16759.472484663447331384@mail.alporthouse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <150512037119.16759.472484663447331384@mail.alporthouse.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Wilson , daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch, sumit.semwal@linaro.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Am 11.09.2017 um 10:59 schrieb Chris Wilson: > Quoting Christian König (2017-09-11 09:50:40) >> Sorry for the delayed response, but your mail somehow ended up in the >> Spam folder. >> >> Am 04.09.2017 um 15:40 schrieb Chris Wilson: >>> Quoting Christian König (2017-09-04 14:27:33) >>>> From: Christian König >>>> >>>> The logic is buggy and unnecessary complex. When dma_fence_get_rcu() fails to >>>> acquire a reference it doesn't necessary mean that there is no fence at all. >>>> >>>> It usually mean that the fence was replaced by a new one and in this situation >>>> we certainly want to have the new one as result and *NOT* NULL. >>> Which is not guaranteed by the code you wrote either. >>> >>> The point of the comment is that the mb is only inside the successful >>> kref_atomic_inc_unless_zero, and that only after that mb do you know >>> whether or not you have the current fence. >>> >>> You can argue that you want to replace the >>> if (!dma_fence_get_rcu()) >>> return NULL >>> with >>> if (!dma_fence_get_rcu() >>> continue; >>> but it would be incorrect to say that by simply ignoring the >>> post-condition check that you do have the right fence. >> You are completely missing the point here. >> >> It is irrelevant if you have the current fence or not when you return. >> You can only guarantee that it is the current fence when you take a look >> and that is exactly what we want to avoid. >> >> So the existing code is complete nonsense. Instead what we need to >> guarantee is that we return *ANY* fence which we can grab a reference for. > Not quite. We can grab a reference on a fence that was already freed and > reused between the rcu_dereference() and dma_fence_get_rcu(). Reusing a memory structure before the RCU grace period is completed is illegal, otherwise the whole RCU approach won't work. So that case can't happen. Regards, Christian. > -Chris