When we merge several fences, if all of them are signaled already, we still keep one of them. So instead of using add_fence(), which will not increase the refcount of signaled fences, we should explicitly call fence_get() for the fence we are keeping. This patch fixes a kernel panic that can be triggered by creating a fence that is expired (or increasing the timeline until it expires), then creating a merged fence out of it, and deleting the merged fence. This will make the original expired fence's refcount go to zero. Signed-off-by: Rafael Antognolli <rafael.antognolli@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c b/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c index abb5fda..0fe7ec2 100644 --- a/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c @@ -253,10 +253,8 @@ static struct sync_file *sync_file_merge(const char *name, struct sync_file *a, for (; i_b < b_num_fences; i_b++) add_fence(fences, &i, b_fences[i_b]); - if (i == 0) { - add_fence(fences, &i, a_fences[0]); - i++; - } + if (i == 0) + fences[i++] = fence_get(a_fences[0]); if (num_fences > i) { nfences = krealloc(fences, i * sizeof(*fences), -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel