[PATCH v7 00/11] drm/bridge: add devm_drm_bridge_alloc() with bridge refcount

[Luca Ceresoli]

This series improves the way DRM bridges are allocated and initialized and
makes them reference-counted. The goal of reference counting is to avoid
use-after-free by drivers which got a pointer to a bridge and keep it
stored and used even after the bridge has been deallocated.

The overall goal is supporting Linux devices with a DRM pipeline whose
final components can be hot-plugged and hot-unplugged, including one or
more bridges. For more details see the big picture [0].

DRM bridge drivers will have to be adapted to the new API, which is pretty
simple for most cases. Refcounting will have to be adopted on the two
sides: all functions returning a bridge pointer and all code obtaining such
a pointer. This series has just an overview of some of those conversions,
because for now the main goal is to agree on the API.

Series layout:

 1. Add the new API and refcounting:

    drm/bridge: add devm_drm_bridge_alloc()
    drm/bridge: add support for refcounting

 2. get/put the reference in basic operations in the bridge core:

    drm/bridge: get/put the bridge reference in drm_bridge_add/remove()
    drm/bridge: get/put the bridge reference in drm_bridge_attach/detach()

 3. as an example of changes for bridge consumers, get a reference for the
    bridge returned by drm_bridge_chain_get_first_bridge(), have it put by
    all callers (all users will be covered later on separately):

    drm/bridge: add a cleanup action for scope-based drm_bridge_put() invocation
    drm/bridge: get the bridge returned by drm_bridge_chain_get_first_bridge()
    drm/mxsfb: put the bridge returned by drm_bridge_chain_get_first_bridge()
    drm/atomic-helper: put the bridge returned by drm_bridge_chain_get_first_bridge()
    drm/probe-helper: put the bridge returned by drm_bridge_chain_get_first_bridge()

 4. convert a few bridge drivers (bridge providers) to the new API:

    drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi83: use dynamic lifetime management
    drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: use dynamic lifetime management

This work was formerly a part of my v6 DRM bridge hotplug series[0], now
split as a standalone series with many improvements, hence the "v7" version
number.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250206-hotplug-drm-bridge-v6-0-9d6f2c9c3058@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Luca Ceresoli (11):
      drm/bridge: add devm_drm_bridge_alloc()
      drm/bridge: add support for refcounting
      drm/bridge: get/put the bridge reference in drm_bridge_add/remove()
      drm/bridge: get/put the bridge reference in drm_bridge_attach/detach()
      drm/bridge: add a cleanup action for scope-based drm_bridge_put() invocation
      drm/bridge: get the bridge returned by drm_bridge_chain_get_first_bridge()
      drm/mxsfb: put the bridge returned by drm_bridge_chain_get_first_bridge()
      drm/atomic-helper: put the bridge returned by drm_bridge_chain_get_first_bridge()
      drm/probe-helper: put the bridge returned by drm_bridge_chain_get_first_bridge()
      drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi83: use dynamic lifetime management
      drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: use dynamic lifetime management

 drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/samsung-dsim.c |   7 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi83.c |   7 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c   |   5 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c          |  74 +++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c    |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/mxsfb/lcdif_kms.c     |   3 +-
 include/drm/drm_bridge.h              | 119 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 7 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 9e6d91c60b0d64a4f945663993b3bbf4f3fb7392
change-id: 20250314-drm-bridge-refcount-58d9503503f6

Best regards,
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Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>