linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 052/164] drm/nouveau/tmr: fix corruption of the pending list when rescheduling an alarm

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Message-Id: <20170523200909.469062400@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 22:07:49 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 052/164] drm/nouveau/tmr: fix corruption of the pending list when rescheduling an alarm

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

------------------

From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>

commit 9fc64667ee48c9a25e7dca1a6bcb6906fec5bcc5 upstream.

At least therm/fantog "attempts" to work around this issue, which could
lead to corruption of the pending alarm list.

Fix it properly by not updating the timestamp without the lock held, or
trying to add an already pending alarm to the pending alarm list....

Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/timer/base.c |   17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/timer/base.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/timer/base.c
@@ -65,14 +65,17 @@ nvkm_timer_alarm(struct nvkm_timer *tmr,
 	struct nvkm_alarm *list;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	alarm->timestamp = nvkm_timer_read(tmr) + nsec;
-
-	/* append new alarm to list, in soonest-alarm-first order */
+	/* Remove alarm from pending list.
+	 *
+	 * This both protects against the corruption of the list,
+	 * and implements alarm rescheduling/cancellation.
+	 */
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&tmr->lock, flags);
-	if (!nsec) {
-		if (!list_empty(&alarm->head))
-			list_del(&alarm->head);
-	} else {
+	list_del_init(&alarm->head);
+
+	if (nsec) {
+		/* Insert into pending list, ordered earliest to latest. */
+		alarm->timestamp = nvkm_timer_read(tmr) + nsec;
 		list_for_each_entry(list, &tmr->alarms, head) {
 			if (list->timestamp > alarm->timestamp)
 				break;