On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 11:16:44PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Haneen Mohammed wrote:
>
> > Remove obsolete comment which was initially added in 2008 to annotate
> > that idr_find() was used before idr_remove() since idr_remove() didn't
> > use to return feedback. The comment now is irrelevant with
> > commit f6cd7daecff5 ("drm: Release driver references to handle before
> > making it available again").
>
> Why did you send it again?
>
> julia
>
I forgot to include the dri-devel mailing list for the first patch.
Haneen
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c | 9 ---------
> > 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
> > index c55f338..b9bddaa 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
> > @@ -282,15 +282,6 @@ drm_gem_handle_delete(struct drm_file *filp, u32 handle)
> > {
> > struct drm_gem_object *obj;
> >
> > - /* This is gross. The idr system doesn't let us try a delete and
> > - * return an error code. It just spews if you fail at deleting.
> > - * So, we have to grab a lock around finding the object and then
> > - * doing the delete on it and dropping the refcount, or the user
> > - * could race us to double-decrement the refcount and cause a
> > - * use-after-free later. Given the frequency of our handle lookups,
> > - * we may want to use ida for number allocation and a hash table
> > - * for the pointers, anyway.
> > - */
> > spin_lock(&filp->table_lock);
> >
> > /* Check if we currently have a reference on the object */
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >
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