Re: [4.2.0-rc1-00201-g59c3cb5] Regression: kernel NULL pointer dereference

Daniel Vetter
2015-07-13T06:19:40Z

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 09:52:51AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000009
> > IP: [<ffffffffbd3447bb>] 0xffffffffbd3447bb
>
> Ugh. Please enable KALLSYMS to get sane symbols.
>
> But yes, "crtc_state->base.active" is at offset 9 from "crtc_state",
> so it's pretty clearly just that change frm
>
> - if (intel_crtc->active) {
> + if (crtc_state->base.active) {
>
> and "crtc_state" is NULL.
>
> And the code very much knows that crtc_state can be NULL, since it's
> initialized with
>
> crtc_state = state->base.state ?
> intel_atomic_get_crtc_state(state->base.state,
> intel_crtc) : NULL;
>
> Tssk. Daniel? Should I just revert that commit dec4f799d0a4
> ("drm/i915: Use crtc_state->active in primary check_plane func") for
> now, or is there a better fix? Like just checking crtc_state for NULL?

Indeed embarrassing. I've missed that we still have 1 caller left that's
using the transitional helpers, and those don't fill out
plane_state->state backpointers to the global atomic update since there is
no global atomic update for transitional helpers. Below diff should fix
this - we need to preferentially check crts_state->active and if that's
not set intel_crtc->active should yield the right result for the one
remaining caller (it's in the crtc_disable paths).

For cheap excuses why i915 is so crap in 4.2: Thanks to a hipshot decision
to transition to a different QA team ("we'll do this in 1 week without
upfront planing") I essentially don't have proper QA support for 1-2
months by now. The other trouble in this area specifically is that this
code is already completely changed in -next again, so any testing done on
integration trees (like -next or drm-intel-nightly) won't test any patches
for 4.2.
-Daniel

Oh and Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> in case you
decide to apply this right away.
---
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
index ba9321998a41..85ac6d85dc39 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
@@ -13276,7 +13276,7 @@ intel_check_primary_plane(struct drm_plane *plane,
if (ret)
return ret;

- if (crtc_state->base.active) {
+ if (crtc_state ? crtc_state->base.active : intel_crtc->active) {
struct intel_plane_state *old_state =
to_intel_plane_state(plane->state);

--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation