[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Fixed bad refcounting on execbuf failures

Ben Widawsky benjamin.widawsky at intel.com
Wed Dec 4 02:28:23 CET 2013


eb_destroy currently cleans up the refcounts for all the VMAs done at
lookup. Currently eb_lookup_vmas cleans up all the *objects* we've
looked up. There exists a period of time when we under severe memory
pressure, the VMA creation will fail, and fall into our exit path.

When the above event occurs, the object list, and eb->vma list are not
equal, the latter being a subset of the former. As we attempt to clean
up the refcounts on the error path we have the potential to decrement
the refcount by one extra here.

commit 27173f1f95db5e74ceb35fe9a2f2f348ea11bac9
Author: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
Date:   Wed Aug 14 11:38:36 2013 +0200

    drm/i915: Convert execbuf code to use vmas

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index c7af371..b5c940a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -167,6 +167,13 @@ eb_lookup_vmas(struct eb_vmas *eb,
 
 
 out:
+	/* eb_vmas are cleaned up by destroy. Others are not */
+	if (ret) {
+		struct i915_vma *vma;
+		list_for_each_entry(vma, &eb->vmas, exec_list)
+			list_del(&vma->obj->obj_exec_link);
+	}
+
 	while (!list_empty(&objects)) {
 		obj = list_first_entry(&objects,
 				       struct drm_i915_gem_object,
-- 
1.8.4.2




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