[PATCH v11 14/74] drm/bridge: Fix unlocked list access in drm_bridge_attach()

From: Cristian Ciocaltea

Date: Tue Sep 01 2026 - 14:58:42 EST


drm_bridge_attach() inspects bridge->list to warn about bridges being
attached without a previous drm_bridge_add() call, but it does so
without holding bridge_lock.

The list head can be concurrently written by drm_bridge_add(),
drm_bridge_remove() and __drm_bridge_free() while they operate on
neighbouring entries of bridge_list or bridge_lingering_list, all of
them under bridge_lock. Hence the unlocked read is a data race, even
though it is unlikely to change the outcome of list_empty() in practice.

Perform the check with bridge_lock held.

Fixes: 76f1a9711b83 ("drm/bridge: add warning for bridges attached without being added")
Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
index a8b6df5c13ea..10dde3600c70 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
@@ -606,8 +606,10 @@ int drm_bridge_attach(struct drm_encoder *encoder, struct drm_bridge *bridge,
if (!bridge->container)
DRM_WARN("DRM bridge corrupted or not allocated by devm_drm_bridge_alloc()\n");

- if (list_empty(&bridge->list))
- DRM_WARN("Missing drm_bridge_add() before attach\n");
+ scoped_guard(mutex, &bridge_lock) {
+ if (list_empty(&bridge->list))
+ DRM_WARN("Missing drm_bridge_add() before attach\n");
+ }

drm_bridge_get(bridge);


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