drm/i915: Fix a use after free, and unbalanced refcounting

When converting from implicitly tracked execlist queue items to ref counted
requests, not all frees of requests were replaced with unrefs, and extraneous
refs/unrefs of contexts were added.
Correct the unbalanced refcount & replace the frees.
Remove a noisy warning when hitting the request creation path.

drm_i915_gem_request and intel_context are both kref reference counted
structures. Upon allocation, drm_i915_gem_request's ref count should be
bumped using kref_init. When a context is assigned to the request,
the context's reference count should be bumped using i915_gem_context_reference.
i915_gem_request_reference will reduce the context reference count when
the request is freed.

Problem introduced in
commit 6d3d8274bc45de4babb62d64562d92af984dd238
Author:     Nick Hoath <nicholas.hoath@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jan 15 13:10:39 2015 +0000

     drm/i915: Subsume intel_ctx_submit_request in to drm_i915_gem_request

v2: Added comments explaining how the ctx pointer and the request object should
be ref-counted. Removed noisy warning.

v3: Cleaned up the language used in the commit & the header
description (Thanks David Gordon)

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88652
Signed-off-by: Nick Hoath <nicholas.hoath@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Daniel <thomas.daniel@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
index 0f358c5999ec..e8d3da9f3373 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -503,18 +503,19 @@ static int execlists_context_queue(struct intel_engine_cs *ring,
 		 * If there isn't a request associated with this submission,
 		 * create one as a temporary holder.
 		 */
-		WARN(1, "execlist context submission without request");
 		request = kzalloc(sizeof(*request), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (request == NULL)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		request->ring = ring;
 		request->ctx = to;
+		kref_init(&request->ref);
+		request->uniq = dev_priv->request_uniq++;
+		i915_gem_context_reference(request->ctx);
 	} else {
+		i915_gem_request_reference(request);
 		WARN_ON(to != request->ctx);
 	}
 	request->tail = tail;
-	i915_gem_request_reference(request);
-	i915_gem_context_reference(request->ctx);
 
 	intel_runtime_pm_get(dev_priv);
 
@@ -731,7 +732,6 @@ void intel_execlists_retire_requests(struct intel_engine_cs *ring)
 		if (ctx_obj && (ctx != ring->default_context))
 			intel_lr_context_unpin(ring, ctx);
 		intel_runtime_pm_put(dev_priv);
-		i915_gem_context_unreference(ctx);
 		list_del(&req->execlist_link);
 		i915_gem_request_unreference(req);
 	}