On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Inki Dae <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch fixes a kernel panic issue which happened > when drm driver is closed while modetest. > > This issue could be reproduced easily by launching modetest > with page flip repeatedly. > > The reason is that invalid drm_file object could be accessed by > send_vblank_event function when finishing page flip if the drm_file > object was removed by drm_release and there was a pended page > flip event which was already committed to hardware. > > So this patch makes the pended page flip event to be cancelled by > preclose callback which is called at front of drm_release function. > > Changelog v2: > - free vblank event objects belonging to the request process, > increment event space and decrease pending_update when cancelling > the event > > Changelog v3: > - initialize only device specific things. Each page flip event object > is created by DRM core so DRM core should release the object including > incrementing event space. > > Signed-off-by: Inki Dae <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Note that after my drm_event cleanup series has landed (aiming for early 4.6) you can/should revert this again. But it's too big as a bugfix this late in 4.5. Ack/tested-by from exynos on that series would be great. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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