Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/gt: Protect against overflow in active_engine()

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2025, Krzysztof Karas <krzysztof.karas@intel.com> wrote:
> It is unlikely, but possible for the first call to
> intel_context_create() to fail with -ENOMEM, which would result
> in entering the following code block and decrementing "count",
> when it is set to 0 (initial condition in the for loop).
>
> Protect from overflowing the variable with additional count > 0
> check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Karas <krzysztof.karas@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_hangcheck.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_hangcheck.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_hangcheck.c
> index f057c16410e7..cc0798dd30d5 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_hangcheck.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_hangcheck.c
> @@ -904,8 +904,10 @@ static void active_engine(struct kthread_work *work)
>  			arg->result = PTR_ERR(ce[count]);
>  			pr_err("[%s] Create context #%ld failed: %d!\n",
>  			       engine->name, count, arg->result);
> -			while (--count)
> -				intel_context_put(ce[count]);
> +			if (likely(count > 0)) {

Please don't throw around likely/unlikely lightly.

BR,
Jani.

> +				while (--count)
> +					intel_context_put(ce[count]);
> +			}
>  			return;
>  		}
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.34.1

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel