linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 36/58] Revert "drm/radeon: hold reference to fences in radeon_sa_bo

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:59:21 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@....com>,
	Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 36/58] Revert "drm/radeon: hold reference to fences in radeon_sa_bo_new"

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

===============

This reverts commit 40df18b49e7fe4ec9ab93f68c33661ee291149bd, commit
f6ff4f67cdf8455d0a4226eeeaf5af17c37d05eb upstream.

It causes oopses:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
IP: [<ffffffffa010345d>] radeon_fence_ref+0xd/0x50 [radeon]

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc: Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@....com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_sa.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_sa.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_sa.c
index bb166849aa6e..f0bac68254b7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_sa.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_sa.c
@@ -349,13 +349,8 @@ int radeon_sa_bo_new(struct radeon_device *rdev,
 			/* see if we can skip over some allocations */
 		} while (radeon_sa_bo_next_hole(sa_manager, fences, tries));
 
-		for (i = 0; i < RADEON_NUM_RINGS; ++i)
-			radeon_fence_ref(fences[i]);
-
 		spin_unlock(&sa_manager->wq.lock);
 		r = radeon_fence_wait_any(rdev, fences, false);
-		for (i = 0; i < RADEON_NUM_RINGS; ++i)
-			radeon_fence_unref(&fences[i]);
 		spin_lock(&sa_manager->wq.lock);
 		/* if we have nothing to wait for block */
 		if (r == -ENOENT && block) {
-- 
2.7.3