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Currently, drm_file.master pointers should be protected by drm_device.master_mutex when being dereferenced. This is because drm_file.master is not invariant for the lifetime of drm_file. If drm_file is not the creator of master, then drm_file.is_master is false, and a call to drm_setmaster_ioctl will invoke drm_new_set_master, which then allocates a new master for drm_file and puts the old master. Thus, without holding drm_device.master_mutex, the old value of drm_file.master could be freed while it is being used by another concurrent process. However, it is not always possible to lock drm_device.master_mutex to dereference drm_file.master. Through the fbdev emulation code, this might occur in a deep nest of other locks. But drm_device.master_mutex is also the outermost lock in the nesting hierarchy, so this leads to potential deadlocks. To address this, we introduce a new spin lock at the bottom of the lock hierarchy that only serializes drm_file.master. With this change, the value of drm_file.master changes only when both drm_device.master_mutex and drm_file.master_lookup_lock are held. Hence, any process holding either of those locks can ensure that the value of drm_file.master will not change concurrently. Since no lock depends on the new drm_file.master_lookup_lock, when drm_file.master is dereferenced, but drm_device.master_mutex cannot be held, we can safely protect the master pointer with drm_file.master_lookup_lock. Reported-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210712043508.11584-5-desmondcheongzx@gmail.com
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.