It's not allowed to nest another dma_fence container into a dma_fence_array or otherwise we can run into recursion.
Warn about that when we create a dma_fence_array.
v2: fix comment style and typo in the warning pointed out by Thomas
Signed-off-by: Christian König christian.koenig@amd.com Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellström thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com --- drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-array.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-array.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-array.c index 3e07f961e2f3..cb1bacb5a42b 100644 --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-array.c +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-array.c @@ -176,6 +176,20 @@ struct dma_fence_array *dma_fence_array_create(int num_fences,
array->base.error = PENDING_ERROR;
+ /* + * dma_fence_array objects should never contain any other fence + * containers or otherwise we run into recursion and potential kernel + * stack overflow on operations on the dma_fence_array. + * + * The correct way of handling this is to flatten out the array by the + * caller instead. + * + * Enforce this here by checking that we don't create a dma_fence_array + * with any container inside. + */ + while (num_fences--) + WARN_ON(dma_fence_is_container(fences[num_fences])); + return array; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_fence_array_create);