From: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:58:08 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: drm/encoder: add mutex to protect the bridge chain
X-Git-Tag: v7.2-rc1~141^2~26^2~79
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=01b92f0d18214660d9978f0c4dd9507ee8d27d06;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

drm/encoder: add mutex to protect the bridge chain

The per-encoder bridge chain is currently assumed to be static once it is
fully initialized. Work is in progress to add hot-pluggable bridges,
breaking that assumption.

With bridge removal, the encoder chain can change without notice, removing
tail bridges. This can be problematic while iterating over the chain.

Add a mutex to be taken whenever looping or changing the encoder chain.

Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324-drm-bridge-alloc-encoder-chain-mutex-v5-1-8bf786c5c7e6@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder.c
index 8f2bc6a284822..3261f142baea3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder.c
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ static int __drm_encoder_init(struct drm_device *dev,
 	}
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&encoder->bridge_chain);
+	mutex_init(&encoder->bridge_chain_mutex);
 	list_add_tail(&encoder->head, &dev->mode_config.encoder_list);
 	encoder->index = dev->mode_config.num_encoder++;
 
@@ -202,6 +203,7 @@ void drm_encoder_cleanup(struct drm_encoder *encoder)
 	kfree(encoder->name);
 	list_del(&encoder->head);
 	dev->mode_config.num_encoder--;
+	mutex_destroy(&encoder->bridge_chain_mutex);
 
 	memset(encoder, 0, sizeof(*encoder));
 }
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_encoder.h b/include/drm/drm_encoder.h
index 977a9381c8ba9..eded7c34481a2 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_encoder.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_encoder.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <drm/drm_crtc.h>
 #include <drm/drm_mode.h>
 #include <drm/drm_mode_object.h>
@@ -189,6 +190,9 @@ struct drm_encoder {
 	 */
 	struct list_head bridge_chain;
 
+	/** @bridge_chain_mutex: protect bridge_chain from changes while iterating */
+	struct mutex bridge_chain_mutex;
+
 	const struct drm_encoder_funcs *funcs;
 	const struct drm_encoder_helper_funcs *helper_private;