[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "drm/udl: Use unlocked gem unreferencing" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/udl: Use unlocked gem unreferencing

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt8.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 94577de4c2941f87f20a71b38b00e379117055a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:40:43 +0200
Subject: drm/udl: Use unlocked gem unreferencing

commit 72b9ff0612ad8fc969b910cd00ac16b57a1a9ba4 upstream.

For drm_gem_object_unreference callers are required to hold
dev->struct_mutex, which these paths don't. Enforcing this requirement
has become a bit more strict with

commit ef4c6270bf2867e2f8032e9614d1a8cfc6c71663
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Date:   Thu Oct 15 09:36:25 2015 +0200

    drm/gem: Check locking in drm_gem_object_unreference

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c  | 2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_gem.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c
index 5fc16ce..cd8d183 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static int udlfb_create(struct drm_fb_helper *helper,

 	return ret;
 out_gfree:
-	drm_gem_object_unreference(&ufbdev->ufb.obj->base);
+	drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked(&ufbdev->ufb.obj->base);
 out:
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_gem.c
index 2a0a784..d7528e0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_gem.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ udl_gem_create(struct drm_file *file,
 		return ret;
 	}

-	drm_gem_object_unreference(&obj->base);
+	drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked(&obj->base);
 	*handle_p = handle;
 	return 0;
 }
--
2.7.4