This series ensures the bridge-connector gets a reference to bridges when
storing a pointer to them, and releases them afterwards.
This is part of the work towards removal of bridges from a still existing
DRM pipeline without use-after-free. The grand plan was discussed in [1].
Here's the work breakdown (➜ marks the current series):
1. ➜ add refcounting to DRM bridges (struct drm_bridge)
(based on devm_drm_bridge_alloc() [0])
A. ✔ add new alloc API and refcounting (v6.16)
B. ✔ convert all bridge drivers to new API (v6.17)
C. ✔ kunit tests (v6.17)
D. ✔ add get/put to drm_bridge_add/remove() + attach/detach()
and warn on old allocation pattern (v6.17)
E. … add get/put on drm_bridge accessors
1. ✔ drm_bridge_chain_get_first_bridge() + add a cleanup action
(drm-misc-next)
2. ✔ drm_bridge_get_prev_bridge() (drm-misc-next)
3. ✔ drm_bridge_get_next_bridge() (drm-misc-next)
4. ✔ drm_for_each_bridge_in_chain() (drm-misc-next)
5. ➜ drm_bridge_connector_init
6. protect encoder bridge chain with a mutex
7. of_drm_find_bridge
8. drm_of_find_panel_or_bridge, *_of_get_bridge
F. ➜ debugfs improvements
1. ✔ add top-level 'bridges' file (v6.16)
2. ✔ show refcount and list removed bridges (drm-misc-next)
2. … handle gracefully atomic updates during bridge removal
3. … DSI host-device driver interaction
4. removing the need for the "always-disconnected" connector
5. finish the hotplug bridge work, moving code to the core and potentially
removing the hotplug-bridge itself (this needs to be clarified as
points 1-3 are developed)
This was tricky both because there is no central place in
drm_bridge_connector.c to put the references on disposal (handled by patch
1) and because of the complex code flow of drm_bridge_connector_init()
(handled by patch 2).
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
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Luca Ceresoli (2):
drm/connector: allow a .destroy callback for drmm-allocated connectors
drm/display: bridge-connector: get/put the stored bridges
drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c | 112 +++++++++++++++++--------
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c | 6 +-
2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 063db451832b8849faf1b0b8404b3a6a39995b29
change-id: 20250925-drm-bridge-alloc-getput-bridge-connector-556f8dc14af4
Best regards,
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Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>