drm: serialize drm_file.master with a new spinlock

Currently, drm_file.master pointers should be protected by
drm_device.master_mutex when being dereferenced. This is because
drm_file.master is not invariant for the lifetime of drm_file. If
drm_file is not the creator of master, then drm_file.is_master is
false, and a call to drm_setmaster_ioctl will invoke
drm_new_set_master, which then allocates a new master for drm_file and
puts the old master.

Thus, without holding drm_device.master_mutex, the old value of
drm_file.master could be freed while it is being used by another
concurrent process.

However, it is not always possible to lock drm_device.master_mutex to
dereference drm_file.master. Through the fbdev emulation code, this
might occur in a deep nest of other locks. But drm_device.master_mutex
is also the outermost lock in the nesting hierarchy, so this leads to
potential deadlocks.

To address this, we introduce a new spin lock at the bottom of the
lock hierarchy that only serializes drm_file.master. With this change,
the value of drm_file.master changes only when both
drm_device.master_mutex and drm_file.master_lookup_lock are
held. Hence, any process holding either of those locks can ensure that
the value of drm_file.master will not change concurrently.

Since no lock depends on the new drm_file.master_lookup_lock, when
drm_file.master is dereferenced, but drm_device.master_mutex cannot be
held, we can safely protect the master pointer with
drm_file.master_lookup_lock.

Reported-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210712043508.11584-5-desmondcheongzx@gmail.com

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/drm/drm_file.h b/include/drm/drm_file.h
index b81b3bfb08c8..9b82988e3427 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_file.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_file.h
@@ -226,15 +226,21 @@ struct drm_file {
 	/**
 	 * @master:
 	 *
-	 * Master this node is currently associated with. Only relevant if
-	 * drm_is_primary_client() returns true. Note that this only
-	 * matches &drm_device.master if the master is the currently active one.
+	 * Master this node is currently associated with. Protected by struct
+	 * &drm_device.master_mutex, and serialized by @master_lookup_lock.
+	 *
+	 * Only relevant if drm_is_primary_client() returns true. Note that
+	 * this only matches &drm_device.master if the master is the currently
+	 * active one.
 	 *
 	 * See also @authentication and @is_master and the :ref:`section on
 	 * primary nodes and authentication <drm_primary_node>`.
 	 */
 	struct drm_master *master;
 
+	/** @master_lock: Serializes @master. */
+	spinlock_t master_lookup_lock;
+
 	/** @pid: Process that opened this file. */
 	struct pid *pid;