drm/i915: Tighten atomicity of i915_active_acquire vs i915_active_release
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Sun, 26 Jan 2020 10:23:43 +0000 (10:23 +0000)
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:22:38 +0000 (15:22 +0000)
commitac0e331a628b5ded087eab09fad2ffb082ac61ba
tree6135e02148f7c00bd55012530f050bfc6af39aaa
parent70bc7ed951420d18f5a1207549f071799b16987c
drm/i915: Tighten atomicity of i915_active_acquire vs i915_active_release

As we use a mutex to serialise the first acquire (as it may be a lengthy
operation), but only an atomic decrement for the release, we have to
be careful in case a second thread races and completes both
acquire/release as the first finishes its acquire.

Thread A Thread B
i915_active_acquire i915_active_acquire
  atomic_read() == 0   atomic_read() == 0
  mutex_lock()   mutex_lock()
  atomic_read() == 0
    ref->active();
  atomic_inc()
  mutex_unlock()
  atomic_read() == 1
i915_active_release
  atomic_dec_and_test() -> 0
    ref->retire()
  atomic_inc() -> 1
  mutex_unlock()

So thread A has acquired the ref->active_count but since the ref was
still active at the time, it did not initialise it. By switching the
check inside the mutex to an atomic increment only if already active, we
close the race.

Fixes: c9ad602feabe ("drm/i915: Split i915_active.mutex into an irq-safe spinlock for the rbtree")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200126102346.1877661-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.c