Hi On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:01:53PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote: > [...] >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c >> index c51333e..d3232b6 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c >> @@ -356,6 +356,45 @@ static void drm_unplug_minor(struct drm_minor *minor) >> } >> >> /** >> + * drm_minor_acquire - Acquire a DRM minor >> + * @minor_id: Minor ID of the DRM-minor >> + * >> + * Looks up the given minor-ID and returns the respective DRM-minor object. The >> + * refence-count of the underlying device is increased so you must release this >> + * object with drm_minor_release(). >> + * >> + * As long as you hold this minor, it is guaranteed that the object and the >> + * minor->dev pointer will stay valid! However, the device may get unplugged and >> + * unregistered while you hold the minor. >> + * >> + * Returns: >> + * Pointer to minor-object with increased device-refcount, or PTR_ERR on >> + * failure. >> + */ >> +struct drm_minor *drm_minor_acquire(unsigned int minor_id) >> +{ >> + struct drm_minor *minor; >> + >> + minor = idr_find(&drm_minors_idr, minor_id); >> + if (!minor) >> + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); >> + >> + drm_dev_ref(minor->dev); > > Is it possible that somebody would drop the last reference on the device > right between the idr_find() call and drm_dev_ref()? In which case both > the device and the minor will have become invalid when drm_dev_ref() is > called. No, it's locked via the drm_global_mutex. And later I introduce a spinlock here that protects this in case we remove the global lock. Thanks David _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel