Re: [PATCH] drm/prime: fix a potential double put (release) bug

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 03:25:59PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> Am 18.08.21 um 15:02 schrieb Wentao_Liang:
> > In line 317 (#1), drm_gem_prime_import() is called, it will call
> > drm_gem_prime_import_dev(). At the end of the function
> > drm_gem_prime_import_dev() (line 956, #2), "dma_buf_put(dma_buf);" puts
> > dma_buf->file and may cause it to be released. However, after
> > drm_gem_prime_import() returning, the dma_buf may be put again by the
> > same put function in lines 342, 351 and 358 (#3, #4, #5). Putting the
> > dma_buf improperly more than once can lead to an incorrect dma_buf-
> > > file put.
> > We believe that the put of the dma_buf in the function
> > drm_gem_prime_import() is unnecessary (#2). We can fix the above bug by
> > removing the redundant "dma_buf_put(dma_buf);" in line 956.
> 
> Guys I'm getting tired of NAKing those incorrect reference count analysis.
> 
> The dma_buf_put() in the error handling of drm_gem_prime_import_dev()
> function is balanced with the get_dma_buf() in the same function directly
> above.
> 
> This is for the creating a GEM object for a DMA-buf imported from other
> device use case and certainly correct.
> 
> The various dma_buf_put() in drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle() is balanced with
> the dma_buf_get(prime_fd) at the beginning of the function.
> 
> This is for extracting the DMA-buf from the file descriptor and keeping a
> reference to it while we are busy importing it (e.g. to prevent a race when
> somebody changes the fd at the same time).
> 
> As far as I can see this is correct as well.

Yeah the analysis is just high-grade nonsense. The current code looks
correct, the analysis presented here, not.
-Daniel


> 
> Regards,
> Christian.
> 
> > 
> >   314     if (dev->driver->gem_prime_import)
> >   315         obj = dev->driver->gem_prime_import(dev, dma_buf);
> >   316     else
> >   317         obj = drm_gem_prime_import(dev, dma_buf);
> >   				//#1 call to drm_gem_prime_import
> > 				//   ->drm_gem_prime_import_dev
> > 				//   ->dma_buf_put
> >   ...
> > 
> >   336     ret = drm_prime_add_buf_handle(&file_priv->prime,
> >   337             dma_buf, *handle);
> > 
> >   ...
> > 
> >   342     dma_buf_put(dma_buf);  //#3 put again
> >   343
> >   344     return 0;
> >   345
> >   346 fail:
> > 
> >   351     dma_buf_put(dma_buf); //#4 put again
> >   352     return ret;
> > 
> >   356 out_put:
> >   357     mutex_unlock(&file_priv->prime.lock);
> >   358     dma_buf_put(dma_buf);  //#5 put again
> >   359     return ret;
> >   360 }
> > 
> >   905 struct drm_gem_object *drm_gem_prime_import_dev
> >   							(struct drm_device *dev,
> >   906                         struct dma_buf *dma_buf,
> >   907                         struct device *attach_dev)
> >   908 {
> > 
> >   ...
> > 
> >   952 fail_unmap:
> >   953     dma_buf_unmap_attachment(attach, sgt, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
> >   954 fail_detach:
> >   955     dma_buf_detach(dma_buf, attach);
> >   956     dma_buf_put(dma_buf);  //#2 the first put of dma_buf
> > 								//	 (unnecessary)
> >   957
> >   958     return ERR_PTR(ret);
> >   959 }
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wentao_Liang <Wentao_Liang_g@163.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 1 -
> >   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
> > index 2a54f86856af..cef03ad0d5cd 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
> > @@ -953,7 +953,6 @@ struct drm_gem_object *drm_gem_prime_import_dev(struct drm_device *dev,
> >   	dma_buf_unmap_attachment(attach, sgt, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
> >   fail_detach:
> >   	dma_buf_detach(dma_buf, attach);
> > -	dma_buf_put(dma_buf);
> >   	return ERR_PTR(ret);
> >   }
> 

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch