Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 13/22] drm/amdgpu: install stub fence into potential unused fence pointers

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 03:26:28PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> Am 31.08.23 um 12:56 schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:27:27PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> > > Am 30.08.23 um 20:53 schrieb Chia-I Wu:
> > > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 6:24 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > > From: Lang Yu <Lang.Yu@amd.com>
> > > > > 
> > > > > [ Upstream commit 187916e6ed9d0c3b3abc27429f7a5f8c936bd1f0 ]
> > > > > 
> > > > > When using cpu to update page tables, vm update fences are unused.
> > > > > Install stub fence into these fence pointers instead of NULL
> > > > > to avoid NULL dereference when calling dma_fence_wait() on them.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Suggested-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Lang Yu <Lang.Yu@amd.com>
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >    drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c | 6 ++++--
> > > > >    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > We start getting this warning spew on chromeos
> > > Yeah because the older kernels still kept track of the last VM fence in the
> > > syncobj.
> > > 
> > > This patch here should probably not have been back ported.
> > > 
> > > Why was that done anyway? The upstream commit doesn't have a CC stable and
> > > this is only a bug fix for a new feature not present on older kernels.
> > It is part of the AUTOSEL process.
> 
> Could we prevent patches from being backported by adding a Fixes: tag?

Yes, that will show exactly where the patch should be backported to.

thanks,

greg k-h