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Message-ID: <621ccd83-033d-472b-9072-266ab6978058@amd.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:28:11 -0400
From: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>
To: tjakobi@...h.uni-bielefeld.de, Leo Li <sunpeng.li@....com>,
 Rodrigo Siqueira <Rodrigo.Siqueira@....com>,
 Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
 Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
 "Pan, Xinhui" <Xinhui.Pan@....com>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
 Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
 Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
Cc: amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/amd/display: Avoid race between dcn35_set_drr()
 and dc_state_destruct()



On 2024-09-02 05:40, tjakobi@...h.uni-bielefeld.de wrote:
> From: Tobias Jakobi <tjakobi@...h.uni-bielefeld.de>
> 
> dc_state_destruct() nulls the resource context of the DC state. The pipe
> context passed to dcn35_set_drr() is a member of this resource context.
> 
> If dc_state_destruct() is called parallel to the IRQ processing (which
> calls dcn35_set_drr() at some point), we can end up using already nulled
> function callback fields of struct stream_resource.
> 
> The logic in dcn35_set_drr() already tries to avoid this, by checking tg
> against NULL. But if the nulling happens exactly after the NULL check and
> before the next access, then we get a race.
> 
> Avoid this by copying tg first to a local variable, and then use this
> variable for all the operations. This should work, as long as nobody
> frees the resource pool where the timing generators live.
> 
> Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3142
> Fixes: 06ad7e164256 ("drm/amd/display: Destroy DC context while keeping DML and DML2")
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Jakobi <tjakobi@...h.uni-bielefeld.de>

Reviewed-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>

Harry

> ---
>  .../amd/display/dc/hwss/dcn35/dcn35_hwseq.c   | 20 +++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dcn35/dcn35_hwseq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dcn35/dcn35_hwseq.c
> index dcced89c07b3..4e77728dac10 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dcn35/dcn35_hwseq.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dcn35/dcn35_hwseq.c
> @@ -1370,7 +1370,13 @@ void dcn35_set_drr(struct pipe_ctx **pipe_ctx,
>  	params.vertical_total_mid_frame_num = adjust.v_total_mid_frame_num;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < num_pipes; i++) {
> -		if ((pipe_ctx[i]->stream_res.tg != NULL) && pipe_ctx[i]->stream_res.tg->funcs) {
> +		/* dc_state_destruct() might null the stream resources, so fetch tg
> +		 * here first to avoid a race condition. The lifetime of the pointee
> +		 * itself (the timing_generator object) is not a problem here.
> +		 */
> +		struct timing_generator *tg = pipe_ctx[i]->stream_res.tg;
> +
> +		if ((tg != NULL) && tg->funcs) {
>  			struct dc_crtc_timing *timing = &pipe_ctx[i]->stream->timing;
>  			struct dc *dc = pipe_ctx[i]->stream->ctx->dc;
>  
> @@ -1383,14 +1389,12 @@ void dcn35_set_drr(struct pipe_ctx **pipe_ctx,
>  					num_frames = 2 * (frame_rate % 60);
>  				}
>  			}
> -			if (pipe_ctx[i]->stream_res.tg->funcs->set_drr)
> -				pipe_ctx[i]->stream_res.tg->funcs->set_drr(
> -					pipe_ctx[i]->stream_res.tg, &params);
> +			if (tg->funcs->set_drr)
> +				tg->funcs->set_drr(tg, &params);
>  			if (adjust.v_total_max != 0 && adjust.v_total_min != 0)
> -				if (pipe_ctx[i]->stream_res.tg->funcs->set_static_screen_control)
> -					pipe_ctx[i]->stream_res.tg->funcs->set_static_screen_control(
> -						pipe_ctx[i]->stream_res.tg,
> -						event_triggers, num_frames);
> +				if (tg->funcs->set_static_screen_control)
> +					tg->funcs->set_static_screen_control(
> +						tg, event_triggers, num_frames);
>  		}
>  	}
>  }