--- /dev/null
+From foo@baz Mon Mar 7 14:56:11 PST 2016
+Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:56:11 -0800
+To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+Subject: Revert "drm/radeon: hold reference to fences in radeon_sa_bo_new"
+
+This reverts commit 8d5e1e5af0c667545c202e8f4051f77aa3bf31b7 which was
+commit f6ff4f67cdf8455d0a4226eeeaf5af17c37d05eb upstream.
+
+It breaks working hardware, a backported version might be provided at
+some unknown time in the future.
+
+Reported-by: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
+Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
+Cc: Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@amd.com>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+
+---
+ drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_sa.c | 5 -----
+ 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_sa.c
++++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_sa.c
+@@ -349,13 +349,8 @@ int radeon_sa_bo_new(struct radeon_devic
+ /* see if we can skip over some allocations */
+ } while (radeon_sa_bo_next_hole(sa_manager, fences, tries));
+
+- for (i = 0; i < RADEON_NUM_RINGS; ++i)
+- radeon_fence_ref(fences[i]);
+-
+ spin_unlock(&sa_manager->wq.lock);
+ r = radeon_fence_wait_any(rdev, fences, false);
+- for (i = 0; i < RADEON_NUM_RINGS; ++i)
+- radeon_fence_unref(&fences[i]);
+ spin_lock(&sa_manager->wq.lock);
+ /* if we have nothing to wait for block */
+ if (r == -ENOENT && block) {