[PATCH v2 00/10] drm/msm: probe deferral fixes

Abhinav Kumar quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com
Fri Oct 21 16:05:52 UTC 2022


Hi Johan

On 10/20/2022 11:27 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 11:06:30AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 10:53:10AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
>>> The MSM DRM driver is currently broken in multiple ways with respect to
>>> probe deferral. Not only does the driver currently fail to probe again
>>> after a late deferral, but due to a related use-after-free bug this also
>>> triggers NULL-pointer dereferences.
>>>
>>> These bugs are not new but have become critical with the release of
>>> 5.19 where probe is deferred in case the aux-bus EP panel driver has not
>>> yet been loaded.
>>>
>>> The underlying problem is lifetime issues due to careless use of
>>> device-managed resources.
>>
>> Any chance of getting this merged for 6.1?
> 
> Is anyone picking these up as fixes for 6.1-rc as we discussed?
> 
> Johan

All of these except the last two ( as discussed ) have landed in the 
-fixes tree

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/msm/-/commit/6808abdb33bf90330e70a687d29f038507e06ebb

Thanks

Abhinav

>   
>>> Changes in v2
>>>   - use a custom devres action instead of amending the AUX bus interface
>>>     (Doug)
>>>   - split sanity check fixes and cleanups per bridge type (Dmitry)
>>>   - add another Fixes tag for the missing bridge counter reset (Dmitry)
>>>
>>>
>>> Johan Hovold (10):
>>>    drm/msm: fix use-after-free on probe deferral
>>>    drm/msm/dp: fix memory corruption with too many bridges
>>>    drm/msm/dsi: fix memory corruption with too many bridges
>>>    drm/msm/hdmi: fix memory corruption with too many bridges
>>>    drm/msm/dp: fix IRQ lifetime
>>>    drm/msm/dp: fix aux-bus EP lifetime
>>>    drm/msm/dp: fix bridge lifetime
>>>    drm/msm/hdmi: fix IRQ lifetime
>>>    drm/msm/dp: drop modeset sanity checks
>>>    drm/msm/dsi: drop modeset sanity checks
>>>
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_display.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_parser.c  |  6 +++---
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_parser.h  |  5 +++--
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi.c       |  9 +++++----
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi.c     |  7 ++++++-
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c       |  1 +
>>>   6 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)


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