Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] drm/panel: Panel Refcounting infrastructure

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Tue Apr 01 2025 - 11:06:22 EST


On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:15:24 -0400, Anusha Srivatsa wrote:
> This series adds the infrastructure needed for the refcounting
> allocations for panels similar to Luca's efforts with bridges.
> Underlying intention and idea is the same - avoid use-after-free
> situations in panels. Get reference to panel when in use and put
> the reference back (down) when not in use.
> Once this gets approved, rest of the drivers will have to be
> mass converted to use this API. All the callers of of_drm_find_panel()
> will have to be converted too.
>
> [...]

Applied to misc/kernel.git (drm-misc-next).

Thanks!
Maxime