[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] [v2] drm/i915/vma: Correct use after free in eviction

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Sun Aug 18 19:26:57 CEST 2013


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:31:12PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:29:33PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > The vma will [possibly] be destroyed during unbind in eviction.
> > Immediately after this, we try to delete the list entry.
> > 
> > Chris and Ville did the debug on this before I woke up, I just get to
> > take credit for the fix :p
> > 
> > v2: Missed the drm_object_unreference use after free (Ville)
> > 
> > Reported-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
> > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>

Since the commit message lacks that crucial piece of information: How was
this discovered? I use that to tune my gut feeling for gauging the
-nightly test effectiveness ...

> Should have spotted this earlier :(
> 
> Can I have a couple more lines of whitespace?
> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>

Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
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