From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>, Adam Richter <adamrichter4@gmail.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: fix mutex leak in drm_dp_get_mst_branch_device
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:14:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761231dhn.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151016172416.GL13786@phenom.ffwll.local>
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 03:33:02AM -0700, Adam Richter wrote:
>> In Linux 4.3-rc5, there is an error case in drm_dp_get_branch_device
>> that returns without releasing mgr->lock, resulting a spew of kernel
>> messages about a kernel work function possibly having leaked a mutex
>> and presumably more serious adverse consequences later. This patch
>> changes the error to "goto out" to unlock the mutex before returning.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Adam J. Richter <adam_richter2004@yahoo.com>
>
> Patch was whitespace mangled (don't past them into your mailer but instead
> send them with git send-email directly, that's safer), so I had to
> recreate it.
>
> Applied to drm-misc, thanks.
It's missing
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92480
Fixes: 9eb1e57f564d ("drm/dp/mst: take lock around looking up the branch device on hpd irq")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
and arguably was for drm-fixes.
BR,
Jani.
> -Daniel
>
>> ---
>>
>> bugzilla.freedesktop.org ticket:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92480
>>
>> This patch is against the latest
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git . I
>> apologize in advance in I should be submitting patches against some
>> other reference. Please feel free to let me know if I should use some
>> other reference for submitting future patches.
>>
>> My request to subscribe to dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org is pending,
>> so I apologize if it takes a while for this message to be posted on
>> the mailing list.
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
>> index bf27a07..018ad7f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
>> @@ -1194,17 +1194,18 @@ static struct drm_dp_mst_branch
>> *drm_dp_get_mst_branch_device(struct drm_dp_mst_
>>
>> list_for_each_entry(port, &mstb->ports, next) {
>> if (port->port_num == port_num) {
>> - if (!port->mstb) {
>> + mstb = port->mstb;
>> + if (!mstb) {
>> DRM_ERROR("failed to lookup
>> MSTB with lct %d, rad %02x\n", lct, rad[0]);
>> - return NULL;
>> + goto out;
>> }
>>
>> - mstb = port->mstb;
>> break;
>> }
>> }
>> }
>> kref_get(&mstb->kref);
>> + out:
>> mutex_unlock(&mgr->lock);
>> return mstb;
>> }
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>
> --
> Daniel Vetter
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-16 10:33 [PATCH] drm: fix mutex leak in drm_dp_get_mst_branch_device Adam Richter
2015-10-16 17:24 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-10-16 23:24 ` Adam Richter
2015-10-19 8:14 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
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