Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] drm: hold master_lookup_lock when releasing a drm_file's master

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Wed Aug 18 2021 - 06:05:31 EST


On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 03:38:17PM +0800, Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi wrote:
> When drm_file.master changes value, the corresponding
> drm_device.master_lookup_lock should be held.
>
> In drm_master_release, a call to drm_master_put sets the
> file_priv->master to NULL, so we protect this section with
> drm_device.master_lookup_lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@xxxxxxxxx>

At this points all refcounts to drm_file have disappeared, so yeah this is
a lockless access, but also no one can observe it anymore. See also next
patch.

Hence I think the current code is fine.
-Daniel

> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c
> index 8efb58aa7d95..8c0e0dba1611 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c
> @@ -373,8 +373,11 @@ void drm_master_release(struct drm_file *file_priv)
> }
>
> /* drop the master reference held by the file priv */
> - if (file_priv->master)
> + if (file_priv->master) {
> + spin_lock(&dev->master_lookup_lock);
> drm_master_put(&file_priv->master);
> + spin_unlock(&dev->master_lookup_lock);
> + }
> mutex_unlock(&dev->master_mutex);
> }
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch