[PATCH] drm: Fix deadlock retry loop in page_flip_ioctl

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Mon May 22 07:31:55 UTC 2017


I failed to properly onion-wrap the unwind code: We acquire the vblank
reference before we start with the wait-wound locking dance, hence we
must make sure we retry before we drop the reference. Oops.

Fixes: 29dc0d1de182 ("drm: Roll out acquire context for the page_flip ioctl")
Cc: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland at amd.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Reported-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala at gmail.com>
Cc: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala at gmail.com>
Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
index fedd4d60d9cd..24c8a611b98a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
@@ -948,6 +948,11 @@ int drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev,
 	}
 
 out:
+	if (ret == -EDEADLK) {
+		drm_modeset_backoff(&ctx);
+		goto retry;
+	}
+
 	if (ret && crtc->funcs->page_flip_target)
 		drm_crtc_vblank_put(crtc);
 	if (fb)
@@ -956,11 +961,6 @@ int drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev,
 		drm_framebuffer_put(crtc->primary->old_fb);
 	crtc->primary->old_fb = NULL;
 
-	if (ret == -EDEADLK) {
-		drm_modeset_backoff(&ctx);
-		goto retry;
-	}
-
 	drm_modeset_drop_locks(&ctx);
 	drm_modeset_acquire_fini(&ctx);
 
-- 
2.11.0



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