On Thu, 2026-09-03 at 17:02 +0800, [email protected] wrote:
> From: Shixiong Ou <[email protected]>
> 
> The DRM scheduler KUnit tests currently pass NULL for the dev field in
> drm_sched_init_args, which causes a NULL pointer dereference in the
> drm_sched_job trace event when it calls dev_name() on sched->dev.
> 
> Use faux_device_create() to create a fake device for the mock scheduler,
> so the scheduler always has a valid device pointer. This avoids the
> trace event crash without requiring the production code to accept a NULL
> device pointer, which conceptually makes no sense for a scheduler.
> 
> An atomic counter is used to generate unique device names, since
> multiple mock schedulers can exist simultaneously across different
> test suites.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shixiong Ou <[email protected]>

Didn't you address a fault / bug with that?

Cc: stable …
Fixes:

?

> ---
> 

[…]

>  
> +static atomic_t drm_mock_sched_instance = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> +
>  /**
>   * drm_mock_sched_entity_new - Create a new mock scheduler entity
>   *
> @@ -296,11 +300,20 @@ struct drm_mock_scheduler *drm_mock_sched_new(struct 
> kunit *test, long timeout)
>               .name           = "drm-mock-scheduler",
>       };
>       struct drm_mock_scheduler *sched;
> +     char name[64];
>       int ret;
>  
>       sched = kunit_kzalloc(test, sizeof(*sched), GFP_KERNEL);
>       KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(test, sched);
>  
> +     snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "drm-mock-scheduler-%d",

You could use args.name here.

> +              atomic_inc_return(&drm_mock_sched_instance));

Couldn't that atomic be a `static unsigned int` inside this function?
Is simpler and limits the scope. And I wouldn't expect that we'll ever
call drm_mock_sched_new() multi-threaded, or would we?


Besides looks cool, thx

P.

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