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drm: Fix locking for sysfs dpms file
authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 07:56:53 +0000 (09:56 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:51:53 +0000 (09:51 +0900)
commitd96105a5fefafefc110e964a75889e2dda8a8434
tree048715ee37b809440dff3300d5b255d052312535
parente09e88967de067453d19bdf102808ce3cfb266d4
drm: Fix locking for sysfs dpms file

commit 621bd0f6982badd6483acb191eb7b6226a578328 upstream.

With atomic drivers we need to make sure that (at least in general)
property reads hold the right locks. But the legacy dpms property is
special and can be read locklessly. Since userspace loves to just
randomly look at that all the time (like with "status") do that.

To make it clear that we play tricks use the READ_ONCE compiler
barrier (and also for paranoia).

Note that there's not really anything bad going on since even with the
new atomic paths we eventually end up not chasing any pointers (and
hence possibly freed memory and other fun stuff). The locking WARNING
has been added in

commit 88a48e297b3a3bac6022c03babfb038f1a886cea
Author: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Dec 18 16:01:50 2014 -0500

    drm: add atomic properties

but since drivers are converting not everyone will have seen this from
the start.

Jens reported this and submitted a patch to just grab the
mode_config.connection_mutex, but we can do a bit better.

v2: Remove unused variables I failed to git add for real.

Reference: http://mid.gmane.org/20150928194822.GA3930@kernel.dk
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_sysfs.c