linux-kernel - [PATCH V3] drm/tegra: Fix crash caused by reference count imbalance

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Message-ID: <1463585856-16606-1-git-send-email-jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 May 2016 16:37:36 +0100
From:	Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
CC:	<dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH V3] drm/tegra: Fix crash caused by reference count imbalance

Commit d2307dea14a4 ("drm/atomic: use connector references (v3)") added
reference counting for DRM connectors and this caused a crash when
exercising system suspend on Tegra114 Dalmore.

The Tegra DSI driver implements a Tegra specific function,
tegra_dsi_connector_duplicate_state(), to duplicate the connector state
and destroys the state using the generic helper function,
drm_atomic_helper_connector_destroy_state(). Following commit
d2307dea14a4 ("drm/atomic: use connector references (v3)") there is
now an imbalance in the connector reference count because the Tegra
function to duplicate state does not take a reference when duplicating
the state information. However, the generic helper function to destroy
the state information assumes a reference has been taken and during
system suspend, when the connector state is destroyed, this leads to a
crash because we attempt to put the reference for an object that has
already been freed.

Fix this by calling __drm_atomic_helper_connector_duplicate_state() from
tegra_dsi_connector_duplicate_state() to ensure that we take a reference
on a connector if crtc is set. Note that this will also copy the
connector state a 2nd time, but this should be harmless.

By fixing tegra_dsi_connector_duplicate_state() to take a reference,
although a crash was no longer seen, it was then observed that after
each system suspend-resume cycle, the reference would be one greater
than before the suspend-resume cycle. Following commit d2307dea14a4
("drm/atomic: use connector references (v3)"), it was found that we
also need to put the reference when calling the function
tegra_dsi_connector_reset() before freeing the state. Fix this by
updating tegra_dsi_connector_reset() to call the function
__drm_atomic_helper_connector_destroy_state() in order to put the
reference for the connector.

Fixes: d2307dea14a4 ("drm/atomic: use connector references (v3)")

Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
---

V3 changes:
- Dropped WARN_ON

V2 changes:
- Updated to next-20160518
- Replaced open coding of call to drm_connector_reference() with
  __drm_atomic_helper_connector_duplicate_state() per Daniel's feedback.

 drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dsi.c | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dsi.c
index 44e102799195..d1239ebc190f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dsi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dsi.c
@@ -745,13 +745,17 @@ static void tegra_dsi_soft_reset(struct tegra_dsi *dsi)

 static void tegra_dsi_connector_reset(struct drm_connector *connector)
 {
-	struct tegra_dsi_state *state =
-		kzalloc(sizeof(*state), GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct tegra_dsi_state *state = kzalloc(sizeof(*state), GFP_KERNEL);

-	if (state) {
+	if (!state)
+		return;
+
+	if (connector->state) {
+		__drm_atomic_helper_connector_destroy_state(connector->state);
 		kfree(connector->state);
-		__drm_atomic_helper_connector_reset(connector, &state->base);
 	}
+
+	__drm_atomic_helper_connector_reset(connector, &state->base);
 }

 static struct drm_connector_state *
@@ -764,6 +768,9 @@ tegra_dsi_connector_duplicate_state(struct drm_connector *connector)
 	if (!copy)
 		return NULL;

+	__drm_atomic_helper_connector_duplicate_state(connector,
+						      &copy->base);
+
 	return &copy->base;
 }

-- 
2.1.4