[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 140/180] drm/i915: avoid deadlock on failure paths in __intel_framebuffer_create()

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Wed Feb 03 2016 - 18:06:29 EST


3.16.7-ckt24 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 6ccb81f2171ab48592946efab0ce0fd41978f4ba upstream.

Since a8bb6818270c __intel_framebuffer_create() is called
with struct_mutex held, so it should use drm_gem_object_unreference()
instead of drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked().

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

This regression has been introduced in

commit a8bb6818270c32126dba0fd2ddb139d885c5687d
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Feb 10 18:00:39 2014 +0100

drm/i915: Fix error path leak in fbdev fb allocation

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
index b019c563a787..0d68c70368ff 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
@@ -8220,7 +8220,7 @@ __intel_framebuffer_create(struct drm_device *dev,

intel_fb = kzalloc(sizeof(*intel_fb), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!intel_fb) {
- drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked(&obj->base);
+ drm_gem_object_unreference(&obj->base);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}

@@ -8230,7 +8230,7 @@ __intel_framebuffer_create(struct drm_device *dev,

return &intel_fb->base;
err:
- drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked(&obj->base);
+ drm_gem_object_unreference(&obj->base);
kfree(intel_fb);

return ERR_PTR(ret);