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* [PATCH 6.18 674/675] gpu: Fix uninitialized buddy for built-in drivers
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@ 2026-07-30 14:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2026-07-30 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
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  Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, patches, Joel Fernandes, Dave Airlie,
	intel-xe, Peter Senna Tschudin, Koen Koning

6.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Koen Koning <koen.koning@linux.intel.com>

commit cc27314c67516c138ee3829197d1c3b998e29fae upstream.

Move buddy to the start of the link order, so its __init runs before any
other built-in drivers that may depend on it. Otherwise, a built-in
driver that tries to use the buddy allocator will run into a kernel NULL
pointer dereference because slab_blocks is uninitialized.

Specifically, this fixes drm/xe (as built-in) running into a kernel
panic during boot, because it uses buddy during device probe.

Fixes: ba110db8e1bc ("gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part two)")
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org
Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Koen Koning <koen.koning@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260213152047.179628-1-koen.koning@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/Makefile |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/gpu/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 # drm/tegra depends on host1x, so if both drivers are built-in care must be
 # taken to initialize them in the correct order. Link order is the only way
 # to ensure this currently.
+# Similarly, buddy must come first since it is used by other drivers.
+obj-$(CONFIG_GPU_BUDDY)	+= buddy.o
 obj-y			+= host1x/ drm/ vga/ tests/
 obj-$(CONFIG_IMX_IPUV3_CORE)	+= ipu-v3/
 obj-$(CONFIG_TRACE_GPU_MEM)		+= trace/
 obj-$(CONFIG_NOVA_CORE)		+= nova-core/
-obj-$(CONFIG_GPU_BUDDY)		+= buddy.o



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