Am Mittwoch, den 16.05.2018, 14:32 +0200 schrieb Christian König: > Am 16.05.2018 um 14:28 schrieb Lucas Stach: > > Am Mittwoch, den 16.05.2018, 14:08 +0200 schrieb Christian König: > > > Yes, exactly. > > > > > > For normal user space command submission we should have tons of > > > locks > > > guaranteeing that (e.g. just the VM lock should do). > > > > > > For kernel moves we have the mutex for the GTT windows which > > > protects > > > it. > > > > > > The could be problems with the UVD/VCE queues to cleanup the > > > handles > > > when an application crashes. > > > > FWIW, etnaviv is currently completely unlocked in this path, but I > > believe that this isn't an issue as the sched fence seq numbers are > > per > > entity. So to actually end up with reversed seqnos one context has > > to > > preempt itself to do another submit, while the current one hasn't > > returned from kernel space, which I believe is a fairly theoretical > > issue. Is my understanding correct? > > Yes. The problem is with the right timing this can be used to access > freed up memory. > > If you then manage to place a page table in that freed up memory > taking > over the system is just a typing exercise. Thanks. I believe we don't have this problem in etnaviv, as memory referencing is tied to the job and will only be unreferenced on free_job, but I'll re-check this when I've got some time. Regards, Lucas _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
