drm/armada: fix page_flip refcounting leak

A refcounting leak was found of the original frame buffer attached to
the CRTC when using the page_flip ioctl, resulting in the frame buffer
never being freed.

This was not obvious initially, as if the page flip subsequently
re-attaches the original frame buffer, the refcounts will be balanced.
However, if the original frame buffer is freed, then it will be leaked.

Fix this by ensuring that we take a reference on the incoming fb, but
rely on the queued work to drop that ref count.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_crtc.c
index 9a0cc09e665..ef6be294c07 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_crtc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_crtc.c
@@ -945,18 +945,15 @@ static int armada_drm_crtc_page_flip(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
 	armada_reg_queue_end(work->regs, i);
 
 	/*
-	 * Hold the old framebuffer for the work - DRM appears to drop our
-	 * reference to the old framebuffer in drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl().
+	 * Ensure that we hold a reference on the new framebuffer.
+	 * This has to match the behaviour in mode_set.
 	 */
-	drm_framebuffer_reference(work->old_fb);
+	drm_framebuffer_reference(fb);
 
 	ret = armada_drm_crtc_queue_frame_work(dcrtc, work);
 	if (ret) {
-		/*
-		 * Undo our reference above; DRM does not drop the reference
-		 * to this object on error, so that's okay.
-		 */
-		drm_framebuffer_unreference(work->old_fb);
+		/* Undo our reference above */
+		drm_framebuffer_unreference(fb);
 		kfree(work);
 		return ret;
 	}