From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx> Entry points from the cgroup subsystem into the drm cgroup controller will need to walk the file_priv structures associated with registered clients and since those are not RCU protected lets add a hack for now to make this safe. Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cgroup.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cgroup.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cgroup.c index 56aa8303974a..94e6f39b90c7 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cgroup.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cgroup.c @@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ __del_clients(struct drm_pid_clients *clients, if (atomic_dec_and_test(&clients->num)) { xa_erase(&drm_pid_clients, pid); kfree_rcu(clients, rcu); + + /* + * FIXME: file_priv is not RCU protected so we add this hack + * to avoid any races with code which walks clients->file_list + * and accesses file_priv. + */ + synchronize_rcu(); } } -- 2.34.1