Patch "drm/amdgpu: set metadata pointer to NULL after freeing." has been added to the 4.5-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/amdgpu: set metadata pointer to NULL after freeing.
to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drm-amdgpu-set-metadata-pointer-to-null-after-freeing.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 12:44:29 +1000
Subject: drm/amdgpu: set metadata pointer to NULL after freeing.
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From: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
commit 0092d3edcb23fcdb8cbe4159ba94a534290ff982 upstream.
Without this there was a double free of the metadata, which ended up freeing the fd table for me here, and taking out the machine more often than not.
I reproduced with X.org + modesetting DDX + latest llvm/mesa, also required using dri3.
--- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c +1 -0
@@ -540,6 +540,7 @@ int amdgpu_bo_set_metadata (struct amdgpif (!metadata_size) {if (bo->metadata_size) {kfree (bo->metadata); + bo->metadata =NULL ; bo->metadata_size =0 ; }return 0 ;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.5/gpu-ipu-v3-fix-imx-ipuv3-crtc-module-autoloading.patch queue-4.5/drm-amdgpu-set-metadata-pointer-to-null-after-freeing.patch