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tda998x: Check ref count before invoking drm_connector_cleanup in unbind

Message ID 1523544152-15241-1-git-send-email-ayan.halder@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Ayan Halder April 12, 2018, 2:42 p.m. UTC
In a situation when the reference count of the drm connector is greater than 1,
the unbind function should not invoke drm_connector_cleanup as this will lead
to an inconsistent state where the drm_crtc_state->connector_mask still has
a bitmask referring to the stale connector. Later, when drm driver invokes
drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() which invokes ---> drm_atomic_helper_disable_all()
 ---> drm_atomic_commit() --> drm_atomic_check_only() -->
drm_atomic_helper_check() --> drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset(). This returns
an error due to enabled/connectors mismatch.

In such a scenario, one should just return from _unbind() and let the drm driver
subsequently invoke drm_atomic_helper_shutdown. This will reset the
drm_crtc_state->connector_mask and will shutdown the crtcs. It will also decrement
the reference count of the connectors to 1. Subsequently, drm_mode_config_cleanup
will get invoked which will do the following :-

1. Decrement the reference count for each of the connectors. Thus the ref count
will reach 0 and drm_connector_funcs->destroy() gets called. Thus,
tda998x_connector_destroy() gets invoked which calls drm_connector_cleanup

2. Invokes the destroy callback for each encoder. Thus tda998x_encoder_destroy()
gets invoked.

Signed-off-by: Ayan Kumar Halder <ayan.halder@arm.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Russell King (Oracle) April 12, 2018, 3:47 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 03:42:32PM +0100, Ayan Kumar Halder wrote:
> In a situation when the reference count of the drm connector is greater than 1,
> the unbind function should not invoke drm_connector_cleanup as this will lead
> to an inconsistent state where the drm_crtc_state->connector_mask still has
> a bitmask referring to the stale connector. Later, when drm driver invokes
> drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() which invokes ---> drm_atomic_helper_disable_all()
>  ---> drm_atomic_commit() --> drm_atomic_check_only() -->
> drm_atomic_helper_check() --> drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset(). This returns
> an error due to enabled/connectors mismatch.
> 
> In such a scenario, one should just return from _unbind() and let the drm driver
> subsequently invoke drm_atomic_helper_shutdown. This will reset the
> drm_crtc_state->connector_mask and will shutdown the crtcs. It will also decrement
> the reference count of the connectors to 1. Subsequently, drm_mode_config_cleanup
> will get invoked which will do the following :-

If the device is still in-use after unbind() has been called, that is
_very_ bad news, and probably means that the "host" driver is not
calling component_unbind() at the right point.

Any resources claimed in the bind() callback using devm functions
will be freed, which will include (eg) the drm_encoder structure and
in fact the drm_connector.  So what you have here is a use-after-free
bug, and your change does nothing for that.

Please fix the "host" driver instead.
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c
index 9e67a7b..8ad1cc7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c
@@ -1709,6 +1709,9 @@  static void tda998x_unbind(struct device *dev, struct device *master,
 {
 	struct tda998x_priv *priv = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
 
+	if (kref_read(&priv->connector.base.refcount) > 1)
+		return;
+
 	drm_connector_cleanup(&priv->connector);
 	drm_encoder_cleanup(&priv->encoder);
 	tda998x_destroy(priv);