[PATCH v3 3/7] drm/bridge: drm_bridge_attach: lock the encoder chain mutex during insertion

Luca Ceresoli posted 7 patches 4 months ago
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[PATCH v3 3/7] drm/bridge: drm_bridge_attach: lock the encoder chain mutex during insertion
Posted by Luca Ceresoli 4 months ago
drm_bridge_attach() modifies the encoder bridge chain, so take a mutex
around such operations to allow users of the chain to protect themselves
from chain modifications while iterating.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>

---

Changes in v3:
- Lock encoder->bridge_chain_mutex directly, no wrappers

Changes in v2:
- Removed comment before on drm_bridge_detach()
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
index 53e7ece36dd940aabd1c0880f296fce7224a12ac..a25e379237f95c037eddc7602d405f958a4efa44 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
@@ -453,10 +453,12 @@ int drm_bridge_attach(struct drm_encoder *encoder, struct drm_bridge *bridge,
 	bridge->dev = encoder->dev;
 	bridge->encoder = encoder;
 
+	mutex_lock(&encoder->bridge_chain_mutex);
 	if (previous)
 		list_add(&bridge->chain_node, &previous->chain_node);
 	else
 		list_add(&bridge->chain_node, &encoder->bridge_chain);
+	mutex_unlock(&encoder->bridge_chain_mutex);
 
 	if (bridge->funcs->attach) {
 		ret = bridge->funcs->attach(bridge, encoder, flags);
@@ -487,7 +489,9 @@ int drm_bridge_attach(struct drm_encoder *encoder, struct drm_bridge *bridge,
 err_reset_bridge:
 	bridge->dev = NULL;
 	bridge->encoder = NULL;
+	mutex_lock(&encoder->bridge_chain_mutex);
 	list_del(&bridge->chain_node);
+	mutex_unlock(&encoder->bridge_chain_mutex);
 
 	if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
 		DRM_ERROR("failed to attach bridge %pOF to encoder %s: %d\n",

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2.51.0
Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] drm/bridge: drm_bridge_attach: lock the encoder chain mutex during insertion
Posted by Maxime Ripard 3 months, 1 week ago
On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 13:38:58 +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> drm_bridge_attach() modifies the encoder bridge chain, so take a mutex
> around such operations to allow users of the chain to protect themselves
> from chain modifications while iterating.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
> 
> [ ... ]

Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Thanks!
Maxime