Hi Imre,

Thanks for the review.

On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 at 22:36, Imre Deak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 02:05:27PM +0800, Guangshuo Li wrote:
> > intel_crtc_prepare_cleared_state() frees the old CRTC hw state before
> > calling intel_dp_tunnel_atomic_clear_stream_bw(). The latter can fail
> > while looking up the DP tunnel group state, for example with -EDEADLK.
> >
> > If that happens, the function returns without completing the cleared
> > state preparation, leaving the duplicated CRTC state with its hw color
> > blob references already dropped. The failed atomic state will then be
> > cleared by the atomic core, which can drop the same references again.
> >
> > Move the hw state release after the DP tunnel stream BW clear has
> > succeeded. Keep the temporary state allocation before the failable DP
> > tunnel operation so an allocation failure cannot happen after the stream
> > BW has already been cleared.
> >
> > Fixes: fb69d0076e68 ("drm/i915/dp_tunnel: Fix error handling when clearing 
> > stream BW in atomic state")
> > Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c 
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> > index ad2fe10b6b1f..0c015bc6c9fd 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> > @@ -4646,9 +4646,6 @@ intel_crtc_prepare_cleared_state(struct 
> > intel_atomic_state *state,
> >       if (!saved_state)
> >               return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > -     /* free the old crtc_state->hw members */
> > -     intel_crtc_free_hw_state(crtc_state);
>
> The fix is valid, however I think instead of this change it'd be better
> to clear the blob reference pointers in intel_crtc_free_hw_state().
>
> > -
> >       err = intel_dp_tunnel_atomic_clear_stream_bw(state, crtc_state);
> >       if (err) {
> >               kfree(saved_state);
> > @@ -4656,6 +4653,9 @@ intel_crtc_prepare_cleared_state(struct 
> > intel_atomic_state *state,
> >               return err;
> >       }
> >
> > +     /* free the old crtc_state->hw members */
> > +     intel_crtc_free_hw_state(crtc_state);
> > +
> >       /* FIXME: before the switch to atomic started, a new pipe_config was
> >        * kzalloc'd. Code that depends on any field being zero should be
> >        * fixed, so that the crtc_state can be safely duplicated. For now,
> > --
> > 2.43.0
> >

Agreed, clearing the blob reference pointers in
intel_crtc_free_hw_state() makes the cleanup safe against repeated calls
and avoids changing the ordering in intel_crtc_prepare_cleared_state().

I'll send a v2 with that change.

Best regards,
Guangshuo

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