Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH] nv50_disp_chan_mthd: ensure mthd is not NULL

From: Ilia Mirkin
Date: Thu Feb 20 2020 - 12:32:59 EST


Hi FrÃdÃric,

It appears Ben made his own version of this patch (probably based on
the one you added to the kernel bz), and it's already upstream:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.6-rc2&id=0e6176c6d286316e9431b4f695940cfac4ffe6c2

Cheers,

-ilia

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:19 PM FrÃdÃric Pierret
<frederic.pierret@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Is anything missing here? How can I get this merged?
>
> Best regards,
> FrÃdÃric Pierret
>
> On 2020-02-08 20:43, FrÃdÃric Pierret wrote:
> > Pointer to structure array is assumed not NULL by default. It has
> > the consequence to raise a kernel panic when it's not the case.
> >
> > Basically, running at least a RTX2080TI on Xen makes a bad mmio error
> > which causes having 'mthd' pointer to be NULL in 'channv50.c'. From the
> > code, it's assumed to be not NULL by accessing directly 'mthd->data[0]'
> > which is the reason of the kernel panic. Simply check if the pointer
> > is not NULL before continuing.
> >
> > BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206299
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: FrÃdÃric Pierret (fepitre) <frederic.pierret@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/channv50.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/channv50.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/channv50.c
> > index bcf32d92ee5a..50e3539f33d2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/channv50.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/channv50.c
> > @@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ nv50_disp_chan_mthd(struct nv50_disp_chan *chan, int debug)
> >
> > if (debug > subdev->debug)
> > return;
> > + if (!mthd)
> > + return;
> >
> > for (i = 0; (list = mthd->data[i].mthd) != NULL; i++) {
> > u32 base = chan->head * mthd->addr;
> >
>
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