Hi On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com> wrote: > The master management was previously protected by the > drm_device::struct_mutex. > In order to avoid locking order violations in a reworked dropped master > security check in the vmwgfx driver, break it out into a separate > master_mutex. > Locking order is master_mutex -> struct_mutex. > > Also remove drm_master::blocked since it's not used. > > v2: Add an inline comment about what drm_device::master_mutex is protecting. > v3: Remove unneeded struct_mutex locks. Fix error returns in > drm_setmaster_ioctl().
Thanks, looks much better now. Tested on hsw, so I'm fine with pushing this into 3.15. Thanks David
