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Commit 6b8eeca6 authored by Dave Airlie's avatar Dave Airlie
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drm/dp/mst: close deadlock in connector destruction.



I've only seen this once, and I failed to capture the
lockdep backtrace, but I did some investigations.

If we are calling into the MST layer from EDID probing,
we have the mode_config mutex held, if during that EDID
probing, the MST hub goes away, then we can get a deadlock
where the connector destruction function in the driver
tries to retake the mode config mutex.

This offloads connector destruction to a workqueue,
and avoid the subsequenct lock ordering issue.

Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
parent 8b72ce15
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