From: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
To: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>, sumit.semwal@linaro.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: WARN on dmabuf release with pending attachments
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 14:34:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b057b0fe-75ae-d872-f500-a307543d8233@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1627043468-16381-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org>
Am 23.07.21 um 14:31 schrieb Charan Teja Reddy:
> It is expected from the clients to follow the below steps on an imported
> dmabuf fd:
> a) dmabuf = dma_buf_get(fd) // Get the dmabuf from fd
> b) dma_buf_attach(dmabuf); // Clients attach to the dmabuf
> o Here the kernel does some slab allocations, say for
> dma_buf_attachment and may be some other slab allocation in the
> dmabuf->ops->attach().
> c) Client may need to do dma_buf_map_attachment().
> d) Accordingly dma_buf_unmap_attachment() should be called.
> e) dma_buf_detach () // Clients detach to the dmabuf.
> o Here the slab allocations made in b) are freed.
> f) dma_buf_put(dmabuf) // Can free the dmabuf if it is the last
> reference.
>
> Now say an erroneous client failed at step c) above thus it directly
> called dma_buf_put(), step f) above. Considering that it may be the last
> reference to the dmabuf, buffer will be freed with pending attachments
> left to the dmabuf which can show up as the 'memory leak'. This should
> at least be reported as the WARN().
>
> Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Good idea. I would expect a crash immediately, but from such a backtrace
it is quite hard to tell what the problem is.
Patch is Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> and I'm
going to push this to drm-misc-next on Monday if nobody objects.
Thanks,
Christian.
> ---
> drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> index 511fe0d..733c8b1 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ static void dma_buf_release(struct dentry *dentry)
> if (dmabuf->resv == (struct dma_resv *)&dmabuf[1])
> dma_resv_fini(dmabuf->resv);
>
> + WARN_ON(!list_empty(&dmabuf->attachments));
> module_put(dmabuf->owner);
> kfree(dmabuf->name);
> kfree(dmabuf);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-23 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-23 12:31 [PATCH] dma-buf: WARN on dmabuf release with pending attachments Charan Teja Reddy
2021-07-23 12:34 ` Christian König [this message]
2021-07-23 15:01 ` Daniel Vetter
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