Re: [PATCH v2] drm: avoid races with modesetting rights

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 10:53 AM Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi
<desmondcheongzx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 16/8/21 2:47 am, kernel test robot wrote:
> > Hi Desmond,
> >
> > Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve:
> >
> > [auto build test ERROR on next-20210813]
> > [also build test ERROR on v5.14-rc5]
> > [cannot apply to linus/master v5.14-rc5 v5.14-rc4 v5.14-rc3]
> > [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
> > And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
> > https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]
> >
> > url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Desmond-Cheong-Zhi-Xi/drm-avoid-races-with-modesetting-rights/20210815-234145
> > base:    4b358aabb93a2c654cd1dcab1a25a589f6e2b153
> > config: i386-randconfig-a004-20210815 (attached as .config)
> > compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-22) 9.3.0
> > reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
> >          # https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/cf6d8354b7d7953cd866fad004cbb189adfa074f
> >          git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
> >          git fetch --no-tags linux-review Desmond-Cheong-Zhi-Xi/drm-avoid-races-with-modesetting-rights/20210815-234145
> >          git checkout cf6d8354b7d7953cd866fad004cbb189adfa074f
> >          # save the attached .config to linux build tree
> >          make W=1 ARCH=i386
> >
> > If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > All errors (new ones prefixed by >>, old ones prefixed by <<):
> >
> >>> ERROR: modpost: "task_work_add" [drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko] undefined!
> >
>
> I'm a bit uncertain about this. Looking into the .config used, this
> error seems to happen because task_work_add isn't an exported symbol,
> but DRM is being compiled as a loadable kernel module (CONFIG_DRM=m).
>
> One way to deal with this is to export the symbol, but there was a
> proposed patch to do this a few months back that wasn't picked up [1],
> so I'm not sure what to make of this.
>
> I'll export the symbol as part of a v3 series, and check in with the
> task-work maintainers.
>
> Link:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210127150029.13766-3-joshi.k@xxxxxxxxxxx/ [1]

Yeah that sounds best. I have two more thoughts on the patch:
- drm_master_flush isn't used by any modules outside of drm.ko, so we
can unexport it and drop the kerneldoc (the comment is still good).
These kind of internal functions have their declaration in
drm-internal.h - there's already a few there from drm_auth.c

- We know have 3 locks for master state, that feels a bit like
overkill. The spinlock I think we need to keep due to lock inversions,
but the master_mutex and master_rwsem look like we should be able to
merge them? I.e. anywhere we currently grab the master_mutex we could
instead grab the rwsem in either write mode (when we change stuff) or
read mode (when we just check, like in master_internal_acquire).

Thoughts?
-Daniel

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Daniel Vetter
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