op 07-03-14 12:18, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior schreef:
> * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano | 2014-03-01 17:48:29 [-0800]:
>
>> On 02/23/2014 10:47 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>>> Dear RT folks!
>>>
>>> I'm pleased to announce the v3.12.12-rt19 patch set.
>> Just hit this Oops in my desktop at home:
>>
>> [22328.388996] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
>> at 0000000000000008
>> [22328.389013] IP: [<ffffffffa011a912>]
>> nouveau_fence_wait_uevent.isra.2+0x22/0x440 [nouveau]
> This is
>
> | static int
> | nouveau_fence_wait_uevent(struct nouveau_fence *fence, bool intr)
> |
> | {
> | struct nouveau_channel *chan = fence->channel;
> | struct nouveau_fifo *pfifo = nouveau_fifo(chan->drm->device);
>
> and chan is NULL.
>
>> [22328.389046] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8807a68f8fa8 RCX:
>> 0000000000000000
>> [22328.389046] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff8807a68f8fb0 RDI:
>> ffff8807a68f8fa8
>> [22328.389047] RBP: ffff8807c09bdca0 R08: 000000000000045e R09:
>> 000000000000e200
>> [22328.389047] R10: ffffffffa0157d80 R11: ffff8807c09bdde0 R12:
>> 0000000000000001
>> [22328.389047] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8807d8493a80 R15:
>> ffff8807a68f8fb0
>> [22328.389053] Call Trace:
>> [22328.389069] [<ffffffffa011af56>] nouveau_fence_wait+0x86/0x1a0 [nouveau]
>> [22328.389081] [<ffffffffa011ca35>] nouveau_bo_fence_wait+0x15/0x20
>> [nouveau]
>> [22328.389084] [<ffffffffa00867c6>] ttm_bo_wait+0x96/0x1a0 [ttm]
>> [22328.389095] [<ffffffffa0121dac>]
>> nouveau_gem_ioctl_cpu_prep+0x5c/0xf0 [nouveau]
>> [22328.389101] [<ffffffffa002cd42>] drm_ioctl+0x502/0x630 [drm]
>> [22328.389114] [<ffffffffa01180a1>] nouveau_drm_ioctl+0x51/0x90 [nouveau]
> I can't find any kind of locking so my question is what ensures that chan is
> not set to NULL between nouveau_fence_done() and
> nouveau_fence_wait_uevent()? There are just a few opcodes in between but
> nothing that pauses nouveau_fence_signal().
Absolutely nothing. :-) Worse still, there's no guarantee that channel isn't
freed, but hopefully that is less likely to be an issue.
~Maarten
