Re: [PATCH 00/11] Miscellaneous stability patches

[Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com>]

> 
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >> This set of patches mainly contains fix for some memory issues
> >> using quite aggressively surfaces and other minor problems like
> >> images going black after a while.
> >>
> >> Frediano Ziglio (11):
> >>   Do not cause spice-server to clean our objects
> >>   Do not leak memory if qxl_release_list_add fails
> >>   Fix print statement not using uninitialized variable
> >>   Avoid double free on error
> >>   Handle all errors in qxl_surface_evict
> >>   Fix return for qxl_release_alloc
> >>   Handle correctly failures in qxl_alloc_relase_reserved
> >>   Remove format string errors
> >>   Move main reference counter to GEM object instead of TTM ones
> >>   Simplify cleaning qxl processing command
> >>   Propagate correctly errors from qxlhw_handle_to_bo
> >>
> >>  qxl/qxl_cmd.c     | 11 ++++++-----
> >>  qxl/qxl_display.c |  2 +-
> >>  qxl/qxl_drv.h     |  2 +-
> >>  qxl/qxl_gem.c     | 10 ++++++++--
> >>  qxl/qxl_ioctl.c   | 46 +++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
> >>  qxl/qxl_object.c  | 11 ++++-------
> >>  qxl/qxl_release.c | 13 +++++++++----
> >>  7 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> >
> > The strip level on these patches is rather odd.  Normally one would
> > see a strip level of 1 at the top of the kernel dir.  E.g.
> >
> > drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_gem.c
> >
> > in the diffstat, etc.
> 
> (Sorry for the double reply.)
> 
> Also, are any of these commits something that should be queued for
> stable kernel releases?  There are a handful that look like they
> should be to me.
> 
> josh
> 

Hi,
  no problem for double reply.

I was using a different repository with only QXL driver. I tested and all patches apply and compile perfectly even with Linus master branch.

About which patches should be applied surely (attempting to put a priority)
- "Move main reference counter to GEM object instead of TTM ones" this can causes memory corruption even not wanting to;
- "Avoid double free on error" this can be cause leaks in kernel if user space wants, mitigated by the fact that usually DRM inodes are owned by root;
- "Handle all errors in qxl_surface_evict" could cause corruption too, not really probable but taking into account that Xorg implementation use a lot signals is not so impossible;
- "Handle correctly failures in qxl_alloc_relase_reserved", "Do not leak memory if qxl_release_list_add fails" just cause leaks on situation where memory is already REALLY low, can be omitted;
- "Fix print statement not using uninitialized variable", "Remove format string errors" should just print garbage and debugging is disabled by default, not necessary.

Frediano