Re: [PATCH 01/10] Revert "drm/msm: Add missing check and destroy for alloc_ordered_workqueue"

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

On 06/03/2023 12:07, Johan Hovold wrote:
> This reverts commit 643b7d0869cc7f1f7a5ac7ca6bd25d88f54e31d0.
>
> A recent patch that tried to fix up the msm_drm_init() paths with
> respect to the workqueue but only ended up making things worse:
>
> First, the newly added calls to msm_drm_uninit() on early errors would
> trigger NULL-pointer dereferences, for example, as the kms pointer would
> not have been initialised. (Note that these paths were also modified by
> a second broken error handling patch which in effect cancelled out this
> part when merged.)
>
> Second, the newly added allocation sanity check would still leak the
> previously allocated drm device.
>
> Instead of trying to salvage what was badly broken (and clearly not
> tested), let's revert the bad commit so that clean and backportable
> fixes can be added in its place.
>
> Fixes: 643b7d0869cc ("drm/msm: Add missing check and destroy for alloc_ordered_workqueue")
> Cc: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c | 2 --
>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx>

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With best wishes
Dmitry