Commit 894a677f4b3e ("drm/cma-helper: Use the generic fbdev emulation") broke almost all drivers that use the CMA helper. The reason is that drm_client_new() requires that the DRM device has been registered, but the drivers register fbdev before registering DRM. Remove the requirement that DRM should be registered when creating a new client. This creates a theoretical race condition where drm_client_new() races with drm_dev_unregister() resulting in the .unregister hook not being called. Case: User loads module which calls drm_client_new(). Device is unplugged and drm_dev_unregister() is called. If drm_dev_unregister() gets the clientlist_mutex first, the new client will never get it's unregister hook called. Fixes: c76f0f7cb546 ("drm: Begin an API for in-kernel clients") Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@xxxxxxx> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client.c | 11 +---------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client.c index 4039a4d103a8..9b142f58d489 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client.c @@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_client_close); int drm_client_new(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_client_dev *client, const char *name, const struct drm_client_funcs *funcs) { - bool registered; int ret; if (!drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET) || @@ -97,21 +96,13 @@ int drm_client_new(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_client_dev *client, goto err_put_module; mutex_lock(&dev->clientlist_mutex); - registered = dev->registered; - if (registered) - list_add(&client->list, &dev->clientlist); + list_add(&client->list, &dev->clientlist); mutex_unlock(&dev->clientlist_mutex); - if (!registered) { - ret = -ENODEV; - goto err_close; - } drm_dev_get(dev); return 0; -err_close: - drm_client_close(client); err_put_module: if (funcs) module_put(funcs->owner); -- 2.15.1 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel