This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/i915: drop the struct_mutex when wedged or trying to reset to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-i915-drop-the-struct_mutex-when-wedged-or-trying-to-reset.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e411072d5740a49cdc9d0713798c30440757e451 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:36:48 +0000 Subject: drm/i915: drop the struct_mutex when wedged or trying to reset From: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx> commit e411072d5740a49cdc9d0713798c30440757e451 upstream. We grab the struct_mutex in intel_crtc_page_flip, but if we are wedged or a reset is in progress we bail early but never seem to actually release the lock. Fixes: 7f1847ebf48b ("drm/i915: Simplify checking of GPU reset_counter in display pageflips") Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161128103648.9235-1-matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (cherry picked from commit ddbb271aea87fc6004d3c8bcdb0710e980c7ec85) Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c @@ -11791,7 +11791,7 @@ static int intel_crtc_page_flip(struct d intel_crtc->reset_counter = i915_reset_counter(&dev_priv->gpu_error); if (__i915_reset_in_progress_or_wedged(intel_crtc->reset_counter)) { ret = -EIO; - goto cleanup; + goto unlock; } atomic_inc(&intel_crtc->unpin_work_count); @@ -11877,6 +11877,7 @@ cleanup_pending: if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(request)) i915_add_request_no_flush(request); atomic_dec(&intel_crtc->unpin_work_count); +unlock: mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex); cleanup: crtc->primary->fb = old_fb; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/drm-i915-don-t-touch-null-sg-on-i915_gem_object_get_pages_gtt-error.patch queue-4.8/drm-i915-drop-the-struct_mutex-when-wedged-or-trying-to-reset.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html