[PATCH variant 1] drm: make drm_get_format_name atomic/irq safe again

From: Eric Engestrom
Date: Fri Nov 04 2016 - 13:33:44 EST


Fixes: 90844f00049e9f42573fd31d7c32e8fd31d3fd07

drm: make drm_get_format_name thread-safe

Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[danvet: Clarify that the returned pointer must be freed with
kfree().]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>

Note (Rob Clark):
I think we need to be a bit careful about follow-up audits of callers of
this.. now that you need to kfree the return value I think it is fairly
easy for new patches to introduce new callers which leak the return
value. We probably should have left the function as-is and introduce
a new variant, or something like that.

Suggested-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> (GFP_ATOMIC)
Suggested-by: Ville SyrjÃlà <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (kasprintf)
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

I'll send another variant tonight that moves the allocation to the
callers (sounds cleaner to me, although there'll be some code
duplication and more opportunities to make mistakes I guess).

---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c | 6 +-----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c
index 29c56b4..66dcf21 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c
@@ -87,9 +87,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_mode_legacy_fb_format);
*/
char *drm_get_format_name(uint32_t format)
{
- char *buf = kmalloc(32, GFP_KERNEL);
-
- snprintf(buf, 32,
+ return kasprintf(GFP_ATOMIC,
"%c%c%c%c %s-endian (0x%08x)",
printable_char(format & 0xff),
printable_char((format >> 8) & 0xff),
@@ -97,8 +95,6 @@ char *drm_get_format_name(uint32_t format)
printable_char((format >> 24) & 0x7f),
format & DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN ? "big" : "little",
format);
-
- return buf;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_get_format_name);

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Cheers,
Eric