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Commit a698cf34 authored by Jerome Glisse's avatar Jerome Glisse Committed by Dave Airlie
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drm: mm always protect change to unused_nodes with unused_lock spinlock



unused_nodes modification needs to be protected by unused_lock spinlock.
Here is an example of an usage where there is no such protection without
this patch.

  Process 1: 1-drm_mm_pre_get(this function modify unused_nodes list)
             2-spin_lock(spinlock protecting mm struct)
             3-drm_mm_put_block(this function might modify unused_nodes
               list but doesn't protect modification with unused_lock)
             4-spin_unlock(spinlock protecting mm struct)
  Process2:  1-drm_mm_pre_get(this function modify unused_nodes list)
At this point Process1 & Process2 might both be doing modification to
unused_nodes list. This patch add unused_lock protection into
drm_mm_put_block to avoid such issue.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
parent 0beb81ab
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