[PATCH] drm/prime: Move all unreferences on fd_to_handle error paths to after unlock
Dave Airlie
airlied at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 15:57:00 PDT 2015
On 14 October 2015 at 19:52, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> If we need to take the error path and drop the references to the objects
> and handle we created earlier, there is a possibility that we then free
> the object and then attempt to free any associated PRIME resources under
> the prime mutex. If we are holding the prime mutex when we attempt to
> free the handle/object, we risk a recursive deadlock.
This doesn't fix the case where drm_gem_handle_create_tail internally
fails and calls drm_gem_handle_delete, which then takes the lock again.
Dave.
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