Revert the use of drm_gem_object.dma_buf back to .import_attach->dmabuf in the affected places. Separates references to imported and exported DMA bufs within a GEM object; as before.
The dma_buf field in struct drm_gem_object is not stable over the object instance's lifetime. The field becomes NULL when user space releases the final GEM handle on the buffer object. This resulted in a NULL-pointer deref. Workarounds in commit 5307dce878d4 ("drm/gem: Acquire references on GEM handles for framebuffers") and commit f6bfc9afc751 ("drm/framebuffer: Acquire internal references on GEM handles") only solved the problem partially. They especially don't work for buffer objects without a DRM framebuffer associated. v2: - extended commit messages (Sima) - drop the GEM-handle changes to be resolved separately Thomas Zimmermann (7): Revert "drm/virtio: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance" Revert "drm/vmwgfx: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance" Revert "drm/etnaviv: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance" Revert "drm/prime: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance" Revert "drm/gem-framebuffer: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance" Revert "drm/gem-shmem: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance" Revert "drm/gem-dma: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance" drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_framebuffer_helper.c | 8 ++++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c | 4 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 8 +++++++- drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem_prime.c | 4 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_prime.c | 5 +++-- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_gem.c | 6 +++--- 7 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) -- 2.50.0