Re: [WIP PATCH 06/15] drm/i915: Keep malloc references to MST ports

From: Lyude Paul
Date: Tue Dec 18 2018 - 16:52:32 EST


On Fri, 2018-12-14 at 10:32 +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 08:25:35PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > So that the ports stay around until we've destroyed the connectors, in
> > order to ensure that we don't pass an invalid pointer to any MST helpers
> > once we introduce the new MST VCPI helpers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_connector.c | 4 ++++
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_mst.c | 2 ++
> > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_connector.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_connector.c
> > index 18e370f607bc..37d2c644f4b8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_connector.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_connector.c
> > @@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ void intel_connector_destroy(struct drm_connector
> > *connector)
> > intel_panel_fini(&intel_connector->panel);
> >
> > drm_connector_cleanup(connector);
> > +
> > + if (intel_connector->port)
>
> We set this as the first thing in intel_dp_add_mst_connector, so this
> check isn't doing anything.

I think this comment might be a mistake? intel_connector_destroy() is shared
by all of the intel connectors, so some may not have a value in
intel_connector->port. I can move it to it's own destroy callback for MST if
you would prefer though.
>
> > + drm_dp_mst_put_port_malloc(intel_connector->port);
> > +
> > kfree(connector);
> > }
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_mst.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_mst.c
> > index f05427b74e34..4d6ced34d465 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_mst.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_mst.c
> > @@ -484,6 +484,8 @@ static struct drm_connector
> > *intel_dp_add_mst_connector(struct drm_dp_mst_topolo
> > if (ret)
> > goto err;
> >
> > + drm_dp_mst_get_port_malloc(port);
>
> Needs to be moved up where we assing intel_connector->port, or it'll
> underflow on cleanup on error paths.
>
> > +
> > return connector;
> >
> > err:
> > --
> > 2.19.2
> >
--
Cheers,
Lyude Paul