| Message ID | 20241003092826.1942901-1-m.szyprowski@samsung.com (mailing list archive) |
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| Headers | show |
| Series | drm: Two fixes for the 'Provide client setup helper and convert drivers' patchset | expand |
Hi Marek On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 at 10:29, Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > Yesterday the "drm: Provide client setup helper and convert drivers" > patchset [1] landed in linux-next. In my tests I found that it causes kernel > NULL pointer dereference on ARM/ARM64 based Raspberry Pi4B boards. It > turned out that the conversion of the VC4 DRM driver is a bit incomplete, > so I've decided to provide the needed fix. While developping it I've > found that a small fix to generic drm/fbdev-helper helps to avoid NULL > pointer dereference in the future in case of similar problems. This duplicates the patches I sent yesterday - https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2024-October/472428.html I chose EINVAL instead of ENODEV for the return value if neither probe function was defined - I don't know which is better/preferred. Dave > Those patches fixes the following problem observed on Raspberry Pi4B > boards: > > 8<--- cut here --- > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000020 when write > [00000020] *pgd=00000000 > Internal error: Oops: 805 [#1] SMP ARM > Modules linked in: aes_arm aes_generic cmac brcmfmac_wcc brcmfmac brcmutil sha256_generic libsha256 sha256_arm cfg80211 hci_uart btbcm crc32_arm_ce raspberrypi_hwmon bluetooth ecdh_generic vc4 ecc libaes snd_soc_hdmi_codec snd_soc_core ac97_bus snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_pcm v3d bcm2711_thermal snd_timer genet drm_shmem_helper snd gpu_sched soundcore drm_dma_helper > CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 21 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-next-20241002 #15363 > Hardware name: BCM2711 > Workqueue: events output_poll_execute > PC is at __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0x30c/0x518 > LR is at __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0x26c/0x518 > pc : [<c0aec770>] lr : [<c0aec6d0>] psr: 60000013 > ... > Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none > Control: 10c5383d Table: 04ef006a DAC: 00000051 > ... > Register r12 information: slab task_struct start c213c400 pointer offset 0 size 2176 > Process kworker/1:0 (pid: 21, stack limit = 0x98a73703) > Stack: (0xf0879e28 to 0xf087a000) > ... > Call trace: > __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock from drm_client_dev_hotplug+0xac/0x104 > drm_client_dev_hotplug from output_poll_execute+0x298/0x2a0 > output_poll_execute from process_one_work+0x178/0x3c0 > process_one_work from worker_thread+0x270/0x42c > worker_thread from kthread+0xe0/0xfc > kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28 > Exception stack(0xf0879fb0 to 0xf0879ff8) > 9fa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > 9fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > 9fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 > Code: e30a3724 e5942038 e34c3186 e8b30003 (e5820020) > ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- > > [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/137389/ > > Best regards > Marek Szyprowski, PhD > Samsung R&D Institute Poland > > > Patch summary: > > Marek Szyprowski (2): > drm/fbdev-helper: fail if driver provides no fbdev/fb probe functions > drm/vc4: Provides DRM_FBDEV_DMA_DRIVER_OPS also for vc5_drm_driver > > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 3 +++ > drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c | 1 + > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) > > -- > 2.34.1 >