Inside drm_is_current_master, using the outer drm_device.master_mutex to protect reads of drm_file.master makes the function prone to creating lock hierarchy inversions. Instead, we can use the drm_file.master_lookup_lock that sits at the bottom of the lock hierarchy.
Reported-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheon...@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c index f00354bec3fb..9c24b8cc8e36 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c @@ -63,8 +63,9 @@ static bool drm_is_current_master_locked(struct drm_file *fpriv) { - lockdep_assert_held_once(&fpriv->minor->dev->master_mutex); - + /* Either drm_device.master_mutex or drm_file.master_lookup_lock + * should be held here. + */ return fpriv->is_master && drm_lease_owner(fpriv->master) == fpriv->minor->dev->master; } @@ -82,9 +83,9 @@ bool drm_is_current_master(struct drm_file *fpriv) { bool ret; - mutex_lock(&fpriv->minor->dev->master_mutex); + spin_lock(&fpriv->master_lookup_lock); ret = drm_is_current_master_locked(fpriv); - mutex_unlock(&fpriv->minor->dev->master_mutex); + spin_unlock(&fpriv->master_lookup_lock); return ret; } -- 2.25.1 _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx