Patch "drm: reference count event->completion" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drm: reference count event->completion

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     drm-reference-count-event-completion.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 24835e442f289813aa568d142a755672a740503c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 11:23:30 +0100
Subject: drm: reference count event->completion

From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

commit 24835e442f289813aa568d142a755672a740503c upstream.

When writing the generic nonblocking commit code I assumed that
through clever lifetime management I can assure that the completion
(stored in drm_crtc_commit) only gets freed after it is completed. And
that worked.

I also wanted to make nonblocking helpers resilient against driver
bugs, by having timeouts everywhere. And that worked too.

Unfortunately taking boths things together results in oopses :( Well,
at least sometimes: What seems to happen is that the drm event hangs
around forever stuck in limbo land. The nonblocking helpers eventually
time out, move on and release it. Now the bug I tested all this
against is drivers that just entirely fail to deliver the vblank
events like they should, and in those cases the event is simply
leaked. But what seems to happen, at least sometimes, on i915 is that
the event is set up correctly, but somohow the vblank fails to fire in
time. Which means the event isn't leaked, it's still there waiting for
eventually a vblank to fire. That tends to happen when re-enabling the
pipe, and then the trap springs and the kernel oopses.

The correct fix here is simply to refcount the crtc commit to make
sure that the event sticks around even for drivers which only
sometimes fail to deliver vblanks for some arbitrary reasons. Since
crtc commits are already refcounted that's easy to do.

References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96781
Cc: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161221102331.31033-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c |   11 +++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c          |    2 +-
 include/drm/drmP.h                  |    1 +
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
@@ -1382,6 +1382,15 @@ static int stall_checks(struct drm_crtc
 	return ret < 0 ? ret : 0;
 }
 
+void release_crtc_commit(struct completion *completion)
+{
+	struct drm_crtc_commit *commit = container_of(completion,
+						      typeof(*commit),
+						      flip_done);
+
+	drm_crtc_commit_put(commit);
+}
+
 /**
  * drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit - setup possibly nonblocking commit
  * @state: new modeset state to be committed
@@ -1474,6 +1483,8 @@ int drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit(struc
 		}
 
 		crtc_state->event->base.completion = &commit->flip_done;
+		crtc_state->event->base.completion_release = release_crtc_commit;
+		drm_crtc_commit_get(commit);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c
@@ -686,8 +686,8 @@ void drm_send_event_locked(struct drm_de
 	assert_spin_locked(&dev->event_lock);
 
 	if (e->completion) {
-		/* ->completion might disappear as soon as it signalled. */
 		complete_all(e->completion);
+		e->completion_release(e->completion);
 		e->completion = NULL;
 	}
 
--- a/include/drm/drmP.h
+++ b/include/drm/drmP.h
@@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ struct drm_ioctl_desc {
 /* Event queued up for userspace to read */
 struct drm_pending_event {
 	struct completion *completion;
+	void (*completion_release)(struct completion *completion);
 	struct drm_event *event;
 	struct fence *fence;
 	struct list_head link;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch are

queue-4.9/drm-reference-count-event-completion.patch