[RESEND PATCH] drm: Remove obsolete "This is gross" comment

Haneen Mohammed hamohammed.sa at gmail.com
Thu Sep 21 21:04:24 UTC 2017


Remove obsolete comment which was initially added in 2008 to annotate
that idr_find() was used before idr_remove() since idr_remove() didn't
use to return feedback. The comment now is irrelevant with
commit f6cd7daecff5 ("drm: Release driver references to handle before
making it available again").

Signed-off-by: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
index c55f338..b9bddaa 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
@@ -282,15 +282,6 @@ drm_gem_handle_delete(struct drm_file *filp, u32 handle)
 {
 	struct drm_gem_object *obj;
 
-	/* This is gross. The idr system doesn't let us try a delete and
-	 * return an error code.  It just spews if you fail at deleting.
-	 * So, we have to grab a lock around finding the object and then
-	 * doing the delete on it and dropping the refcount, or the user
-	 * could race us to double-decrement the refcount and cause a
-	 * use-after-free later.  Given the frequency of our handle lookups,
-	 * we may want to use ida for number allocation and a hash table
-	 * for the pointers, anyway.
-	 */
 	spin_lock(&filp->table_lock);
 
 	/* Check if we currently have a reference on the object */
-- 
2.7.4



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