[PATCH] drm/vkms: Don't warn hrtimer_forward_now failure.

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 11:38:49PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Commit 3a0709928b172a41 ("drm/vkms: Add vblank events simulated by
> hrtimers") introduced ret_overrun variable. And that variable was an
> unused-but-set-variable until commit 09ef09b4ab95dc40 ("drm/vkms:
> WARN when hrtimer_forward_now fails") added WARN_ON(ret_overrun != 1).
> 
> Now, syzbot is hitting this WARN_ON() using a simple reproducer that
> does open("/dev/dri/card1") followed by ioctl(DRM_IOCTL_WAIT_VBLANK),
> and a debug printk() patch says that syzbot is getting
> 
>    output->vblank_hrtimer.base->get_time()=93531904774 (which is uptime)
>    output->period_ns=0
>    ret_overrun=216994
> 
> . I can't understand what "verify the hrtimer_forward_now return" in
> that commit wants to say. hrtimer_forward_now() must return, and the
> return value of hrtimer_forward_now() is not a boolean. Why comparing
> with 1 ? Anyway, this failure is not something that worth crashing the
> system. Let's remove the ret_overrun variable and WARN_ON() test.

Uh we're not crashing the system, it's a warning backtrace.

And we've spent a few months hunting the races here, so just removing that
check isn't really a good idea. The correct thing to do is figure out why
we're hitting this. It could be that we're having a missing check
somewhere, or missing initialization, and that's what syzbot is hitting.
Removing this check here just papers over the bug.

If the vkms driver is loaded, and there's nothing else going on, then what
I expect to happen is that this virtual hw is entirely off. And in that
case, the vblank ioctl should be rejected outright. So there's definitely
something fishy going on to begin with.

If otoh the virtual hw is somehow on (maybe fbcon gets loaded, no idea),
then the vblank wait shouldn't just blow up like this.
-Daniel

> 
> Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=0ba17d70d062b2595e1f061231474800f076c7cb
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> Reported-by: syzbot+0871b14ca2e2fb64f6e3 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: 09ef09b4ab95dc40 ("drm/vkms: WARN when hrtimer_forward_now fails")
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
> index ac85e17428f8..cc1811ce6092 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
> @@ -13,12 +13,9 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart vkms_vblank_simulate(struct hrtimer *timer)
>  						  vblank_hrtimer);
>  	struct drm_crtc *crtc = &output->crtc;
>  	struct vkms_crtc_state *state;
> -	u64 ret_overrun;
>  	bool ret;
>  
> -	ret_overrun = hrtimer_forward_now(&output->vblank_hrtimer,
> -					  output->period_ns);
> -	WARN_ON(ret_overrun != 1);
> +	hrtimer_forward_now(&output->vblank_hrtimer, output->period_ns);
>  
>  	spin_lock(&output->lock);
>  	ret = drm_crtc_handle_vblank(crtc);
> -- 
> 2.18.2
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch