Re: [PATCH 1/7] drm/i915: Fix the offset issue for the stolen GEM objects

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 04:30:41PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:24:45 +0530
> akash.goel@intel.com wrote:
> 
> > From: Akash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com>
> > 
> > The 'offset' field of the 'scatterlist' structure was wrongly
> > programmed with the offset value from the base of stolen area,
> > whereas this field indicates the offset from where the interested
> > data starts within the first PAGE pointed to by 'scattterlist'
> > structure. As a result when a new GEM object allocated from stolen
> > area is mapped to GTT, it could lead to an overwrite of GTT entries
> > as the page count calculation will go wrong, refer the function
> > 'sg_page_count'.
> > 
> > v2: Modified the commit message. (Chris)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Akash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
> > index fed87ec..1a24e84 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
> > @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ i915_pages_create_for_stolen(struct drm_device *dev,
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	sg = st->sgl;
> > -	sg->offset = offset;
> > +	sg->offset = 0;
> >  	sg->length = size;
> >  
> >  	sg_dma_address(sg) = (dma_addr_t)dev_priv->mm.stolen_base + offset;
> 
> Let's get this upstream and cc stable.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Indeed this slipped through the cracks. Patch authors: Please poke me per
mail (cc mailing lists still) or on irc if a patch seems to linger for 1-2
weeks. Merged to -fixes, thanks.
-Daniel
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