On 14 October 2015 at 19:52, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote: > If we need to take the error path and drop the references to the objects > and handle we created earlier, there is a possibility that we then free > the object and then attempt to free any associated PRIME resources under > the prime mutex. If we are holding the prime mutex when we attempt to > free the handle/object, we risk a recursive deadlock.
This doesn't fix the case where drm_gem_handle_create_tail internally fails and calls drm_gem_handle_delete, which then takes the lock again. Dave.
