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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-11-12 08:11:58 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-11-12 08:11:58 -0800
commit99efb9369c54fa98fc354a9ad4bc8c59f3212ff4 (patch)
treee6e6145d84a1e0f4f0c190434746dfee0da5dd9e /include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h
parentfb1cb7b27bba3446bed377c173dbdd2d288e3992 (diff)
parent7dfbbdcffebc41441e64278961f57d2840a76259 (diff)
Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: (39 commits) drm/ttm: Be consistent on ttm_bo_init() failures drm/radeon/kms: Fix retrying ttm_bo_init() after it failed once. drm/radeon/kms: fix thermal sensor reporting on rv6xx drm/radeon/kms: fix bugs in ddc and cd path router code drm/radeon/kms: add support for clock/data path routers drm: vmwgfx: fix information leak to userland drivers/gpu: Use vzalloc drm/vmwgfx: Fix oops on failing bo pin drm/ttm: Remove the CAP_SYS_ADMIN requirement for bo pinning drm/ttm: Make sure a sync object doesn't disappear while we use it drm/radeon/kms: don't disable shared encoders on pre-DCE3 display blocks drivers/gpu/drm: Update WARN uses drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx: Fix k.alloc switched arguments DRM: ignore invalid EDID extensions drm/radeon/kms: make the connector code less verbose drm/ttm: remove failed ttm binding error printout drm/ttm: Add a barrier when unreserving drm/ttm: Remove mm init error printouts and checks drm/ttm: Remove pointless list_empty check drm/ttm: Use private locks for the default bo range manager ...
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diff --git a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h
index 5afa5b52063..beafc156a53 100644
--- a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h
+++ b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h
@@ -432,6 +432,10 @@ extern void ttm_bo_synccpu_write_release(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo);
* together with the @destroy function,
* enables driver-specific objects derived from a ttm_buffer_object.
* On successful return, the object kref and list_kref are set to 1.
+ * If a failure occurs, the function will call the @destroy function, or
+ * kfree() if @destroy is NULL. Thus, after a failure, dereferencing @bo is
+ * illegal and will likely cause memory corruption.
+ *
* Returns
* -ENOMEM: Out of memory.
* -EINVAL: Invalid placement flags.