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Commit fedf5413 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson Committed by Sumit Semwal
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dma-buf: Restart reservation_object_get_fences_rcu() after writes



In order to be completely generic, we have to double check the read
seqlock after acquiring a reference to the fence. If the driver is
allocating fences from a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, or similar freelist, then
within an RCU grace period a fence may be freed and reallocated. The RCU
read side critical section does not prevent this reallocation, instead
we have to inspect the reservation's seqlock to double check if the
fences have been reassigned as we were acquiring our reference.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20160829070834.22296-7-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
parent 4be05420
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