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* [PATCH] drm/dp_mst: Handle torn-down topology gracefully in drm_dp_mst_topology_queue_probe()
@ 2026-05-03  3:45 Jonas Emilsson
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From: Jonas Emilsson @ 2026-05-03  3:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dri-devel; +Cc: Jonas Emilsson, Imre Deak, Lyude Paul, stable, intel-gfx

A hotplug or link-loss event can tear down the MST topology
(setting mgr->mst_state = false and mgr->mst_primary = NULL) concurrently
with a caller invoking drm_dp_mst_topology_queue_probe(). Since the check
is already performed under mgr->lock, the condition is not a programming
error but a valid race -- the topology was valid when the caller decided
to call this function, but was torn down before the lock was acquired.

Replace the drm_WARN_ON() with a graceful early return. This eliminates
spurious kernel warnings and the resulting compositor crashes observed
when connecting/disconnecting DP MST monitors, while keeping the correct
behavior of doing nothing when MST is not active. A drm_dbg_mst() trace
is added so the skipped probe remains observable under MST debug logging.

The existing WARN_ON(mgr->mst_primary) in drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr_set_mst()
already catches the case where the topology is initialized twice, so no
diagnostic coverage is lost.

Fixes: dbaeef363ea5 ("drm/dp_mst: Add a helper to queue a topology probe")
Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Signed-off-by: Jonas Emilsson <jonas.emilsson@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
index 8757972e8..0cb341ce1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
@@ -3738,8 +3738,10 @@ void drm_dp_mst_topology_queue_probe(struct drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr *mgr)
 {
 	mutex_lock(&mgr->lock);

-	if (drm_WARN_ON(mgr->dev, !mgr->mst_state || !mgr->mst_primary))
+	if (!mgr->mst_state || !mgr->mst_primary) {
+		drm_dbg_mst(mgr->dev, "queue_probe skipped: topology torn down\n");
 		goto out_unlock;
+	}

 	drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr_invalidate_mstb(mgr->mst_primary);
-- 
2.51.2


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