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Commit 4364bcb2 authored by Leo Li's avatar Leo Li Committed by Harry Wentland
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drm: Get ref on CRTC commit object when waiting for flip_done



This fixes a general protection fault, caused by accessing the contents
of a flip_done completion object that has already been freed. It occurs
due to the preemption of a non-blocking commit worker thread W by
another commit thread X. X continues to clear its atomic state at the
end, destroying the CRTC commit object that W still needs. Switching
back to W and accessing the commit objects then leads to bad results.

Worker W becomes preemptable when waiting for flip_done to complete. At
this point, a frequently occurring commit thread X can take over. Here's
an example where W is a worker thread that flips on both CRTCs, and X
does a legacy cursor update on both CRTCs:

        ...
     1. W does flip work
     2. W runs commit_hw_done()
     3. W waits for flip_done on CRTC 1
     4. > flip_done for CRTC 1 completes
     5. W finishes waiting for CRTC 1
     6. W waits for flip_done on CRTC 2

     7. > Preempted by X
     8. > flip_done for CRTC 2 completes
     9. X atomic_check: hw_done and flip_done are complete on all CRTCs
    10. X updates cursor on both CRTCs
    11. X destroys atomic state
    12. X done

    13. > Switch back to W
    14. W waits for flip_done on CRTC 2
    15. W raises general protection fault

The error looks like so:

    general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
    **snip**
    Call Trace:
     lock_acquire+0xa2/0x1b0
     _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x39/0x70
     wait_for_completion_timeout+0x31/0x130
     drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done+0x64/0x90 [drm_kms_helper]
     amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail+0xcae/0xdd0 [amdgpu]
     commit_tail+0x3d/0x70 [drm_kms_helper]
     process_one_work+0x212/0x650
     worker_thread+0x49/0x420
     kthread+0xfb/0x130
     ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
    Modules linked in: x86_pkg_temp_thermal amdgpu(O) chash(O)
    gpu_sched(O) drm_kms_helper(O) syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt
    fb_sys_fops ttm(O) drm(O)

Note that i915 has this issue masked, since hw_done is signaled after
waiting for flip_done. Doing so will block the cursor update from
happening until hw_done is signaled, preventing the cursor commit from
destroying the state.

v2: The reference on the commit object needs to be obtained before
    hw_done() is signaled, since that's the point where another commit
    is allowed to modify the state. Assuming that the
    new_crtc_state->commit object still exists within flip_done() is
    incorrect.

    Fix by getting a reference in setup_commit(), and releasing it
    during default_clear().

Signed-off-by: default avatarLeo Li <sunpeng.li@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHarry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1539611200-6184-1-git-send-email-sunpeng.li@amd.com
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