Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] drm/msm: probe deferral fixes

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 10:53:10AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> The MSM DRM driver is currently broken in multiple ways with respect to
> probe deferral. Not only does the driver currently fail to probe again
> after a late deferral, but due to a related use-after-free bug this also
> triggers NULL-pointer dereferences.
> 
> These bugs are not new but have become critical with the release of
> 5.19 where probe is deferred in case the aux-bus EP panel driver has not
> yet been loaded.
> 
> The underlying problem is lifetime issues due to careless use of
> device-managed resources.

Any chance of getting this merged for 6.1?

Johan

> Changes in v2
>  - use a custom devres action instead of amending the AUX bus interface
>    (Doug)
>  - split sanity check fixes and cleanups per bridge type (Dmitry)
>  - add another Fixes tag for the missing bridge counter reset (Dmitry)
> 
> 
> Johan Hovold (10):
>   drm/msm: fix use-after-free on probe deferral
>   drm/msm/dp: fix memory corruption with too many bridges
>   drm/msm/dsi: fix memory corruption with too many bridges
>   drm/msm/hdmi: fix memory corruption with too many bridges
>   drm/msm/dp: fix IRQ lifetime
>   drm/msm/dp: fix aux-bus EP lifetime
>   drm/msm/dp: fix bridge lifetime
>   drm/msm/hdmi: fix IRQ lifetime
>   drm/msm/dp: drop modeset sanity checks
>   drm/msm/dsi: drop modeset sanity checks
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_display.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_parser.c  |  6 +++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_parser.h  |  5 +++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi.c       |  9 +++++----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi.c     |  7 ++++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c       |  1 +
>  6 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)