[Nouveau] [Fwd: [PATCH] Fix null dereference oopses for nv40 cards] kernel 3.13.0-rc8

[Ben Skeggs]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Ben Skeggs <skeggsb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Bob Gleitsmann <rjgleits at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> I should have mentioned that this applies to Linus' 3.13.0-rc7 and rc8
>> git. Maybe it's obvious.
> Hey Bob,
>
> Thanks for reporting this.  Can you try the attached patch instead and
> report if it helps you?
Thinko in first attempt, new one attached.

>
> Ben.
>
>>
>> Sorry about that.
>>
>> Bob
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> From: Bob Gleitsmann <rjgleits at bellsouth.net>
>> To: bskeggs at redhat.com
>> Cc: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Subject: [PATCH] Fix null dereference oopses for nv40 cards
>> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:45:36 -0500
>>
>> The problem affects nv40 cards during booting. It comes from there being
>> two places where subdev arrays are maintained. A commit was recently
>> added to make the two equal. However, the struct nouveau_device version
>> ends up being referenced before it is initialized. The problem arises
>> during the creation of the INSTMEM and THERM subdevs. '
>>
>> Signed off by: Bob Gleitsmann rjgleits at bellsouth.net
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/instmem/nv40.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/instmem/nv40.c
>> index b10a143..0f494ca 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/instmem/nv40.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/instmem/nv40.c
>> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>>   */
>>
>>  #include <engine/graph/nv40.h>
>> +#include <core/device.h>
>>
>>  #include "nv04.h"
>>
>> @@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ nv40_instmem_ctor(struct nouveau_object *parent, struct nouveau_object *engine,
>>
>>         ret = nouveau_instmem_create(parent, engine, oclass, &priv);
>>         *pobject = nv_object(priv);
>> +       device->subdev[NVDEV_SUBDEV_INSTMEM] = *pobject;
>>         if (ret)
>>                 return ret;
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/therm/nv40.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/therm/nv40.c
>> index 002e51b..59b25be 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/therm/nv40.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/therm/nv40.c
>> @@ -187,9 +187,11 @@ nv40_therm_ctor(struct nouveau_object *parent,
>>  {
>>         struct nv40_therm_priv *priv;
>>         int ret;
>> +       struct nouveau_device *device = nv_device(parent);
>>
>>         ret = nouveau_therm_create(parent, engine, oclass, &priv);
>>         *pobject = nv_object(priv);
>> +       device->subdev[NVDEV_SUBDEV_THERM] = *pobject;
>>         if (ret)
>>                 return ret;
>>
>>
>>
>>
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