[PATCH] drm: Don't grab an fb reference for the idr

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Wed Aug 6 00:10:18 PDT 2014


The current refcounting scheme is that the fb lookup idr also holds a
reference. This works out nicely bacause thus far we've always
explicitly cleaned up idr entries for framebuffers:
- Userspace fbs get removed in the rmfb ioctl or when the drm file
  gets closed.
- Kernel fbs (for fbdev emulation) get cleaned up by the driver code
  at module unload time.

But now i915 also reconstructs the bios fbs for a smooth transition.
And that fb is purely transitional and should get removed immmediately
once all crtcs stop using it. Of course if the i915 fbdev code decides
to reuse it as the main fbdev fb then it shouldn't be cleaned up, but
in that case the fbdev code will grab it's own reference.

The problem is now that we also want to register that takeover fb in
the idr, so that userspace can do a smooth transition (animated maybe
even!) itself. But currently we have no one who will clean up the idr
reference once that fb isn't useful any more, and so essentially leak
it.

Fix this by no longer holding a full fb reference for the idr, but
instead just have a weak reference using kref_get_unless_zero. But
that requires us to synchronize and clean up with the idr and fb_lock
in drm_framebuffer_free, so add that. It's a bit ugly that we have to
unconditionally grab the fb_lock, but without that someone might creep
through a race.

This leak was caught by the fb leak check in drm_mode_config_cleanup.
Originally the leak was introduced in

commit 46f297fb83d4f9a6f6891964beb184664341a28b
Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>
Date:   Fri Mar 7 08:57:48 2014 -0800

    drm/i915: add plane_config fetching infrastructure v2

Cc:  Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77511
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
index fa2be249999c..33ff631c8d23 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
@@ -515,9 +515,6 @@ int drm_framebuffer_init(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
-	/* Grab the idr reference. */
-	drm_framebuffer_reference(fb);
-
 	dev->mode_config.num_fb++;
 	list_add(&fb->head, &dev->mode_config.fb_list);
 out:
@@ -527,10 +524,34 @@ out:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_framebuffer_init);
 
+/* dev->mode_config.fb_lock must be held! */
+static void __drm_framebuffer_unregister(struct drm_device *dev,
+					 struct drm_framebuffer *fb)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.idr_mutex);
+	idr_remove(&dev->mode_config.crtc_idr, fb->base.id);
+	mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.idr_mutex);
+
+	fb->base.id = 0;
+}
+
 static void drm_framebuffer_free(struct kref *kref)
 {
 	struct drm_framebuffer *fb =
 			container_of(kref, struct drm_framebuffer, refcount);
+	struct drm_device *dev = fb->dev;
+
+	/*
+	 * The lookup idr holds a weak reference, which has not necessarily been
+	 * removed at this point. Check for that.
+	 */
+	mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.fb_lock);
+	if (fb->base.id) {
+		/* Mark fb as reaped and drop idr ref. */
+		__drm_framebuffer_unregister(dev, fb);
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.fb_lock);
+
 	fb->funcs->destroy(fb);
 }
 
@@ -567,8 +588,10 @@ struct drm_framebuffer *drm_framebuffer_lookup(struct drm_device *dev,
 
 	mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.fb_lock);
 	fb = __drm_framebuffer_lookup(dev, id);
-	if (fb)
-		drm_framebuffer_reference(fb);
+	if (fb) {
+		if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&fb->refcount))
+			fb = NULL;
+	}
 	mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.fb_lock);
 
 	return fb;
@@ -612,19 +635,6 @@ static void __drm_framebuffer_unreference(struct drm_framebuffer *fb)
 	kref_put(&fb->refcount, drm_framebuffer_free_bug);
 }
 
-/* dev->mode_config.fb_lock must be held! */
-static void __drm_framebuffer_unregister(struct drm_device *dev,
-					 struct drm_framebuffer *fb)
-{
-	mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.idr_mutex);
-	idr_remove(&dev->mode_config.crtc_idr, fb->base.id);
-	mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.idr_mutex);
-
-	fb->base.id = 0;
-
-	__drm_framebuffer_unreference(fb);
-}
-
 /**
  * drm_framebuffer_unregister_private - unregister a private fb from the lookup idr
  * @fb: fb to unregister
-- 
1.9.3



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