Re: [PATCH 4/7] drm/msm/dp: fix aux-bus EP lifetime

[Johan Hovold]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 04:55:58PM -0500, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
> 
> On 9/12/22 1:10 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > On 12/09/2022 18:40, Johan Hovold wrote:
> >> Device-managed resources allocated post component bind must be tied to
> >> the lifetime of the aggregate DRM device or they will not necessarily be
> >> released when binding of the aggregate device is deferred.
> >>
> >> This can lead resource leaks or failure to bind the aggregate device
> >> when binding is later retried and a second attempt to allocate the
> >> resources is made.
> >>
> >> For the DP aux-bus, an attempt to populate the bus a second time will
> >> simply fail ("DP AUX EP device already populated").
> >>
> >> Fix this by amending the DP aux interface and tying the lifetime of the
> >> EP device to the DRM device rather than DP controller platform device.
> >
> > Doug, could you please take a look?
> >
> > For me this is another reminder/pressure point that we should populate 
> > the AUX BUS from the probe(), before binding the components together.
> >
> >>
> >> Fixes: c3bf8e21b38a ("drm/msm/dp: Add eDP support via aux_bus")
> >> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx      # 5.19
> >> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/parade-ps8640.c   | 2 +-
> >>   drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_aux_bus.c | 5 +++--
> >>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_display.c      | 3 ++-
> >>   include/drm/display/drm_dp_aux_bus.h     | 6 +++---
> >>   4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

> This breaks builds which have ti-sn65dsi86 included:
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c:628:50: error: passing argument 1 
> of 'devm_of_dp_aux_populate_ep_devices' from incompatible argument type.
> 
> As well,
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c:628:15: error: too few arguments 
> to function 'devm_of_dp_aux_populate_ep_devices'

Thanks for reporting this. I messed up and apparently only grepped for
devm_of_dp_aux_populate_bus() and not the
devm_of_dp_aux_populate_ep_devices() wrapper when searching for users.

Johan