[PATCH] drm/xe/devcoredump: Defer devcoredump initialization during probe
Balasubramani Vivekanandan
balasubramani.vivekanandan at intel.com
Fri Jul 25 06:55:43 UTC 2025
Doing devcoredump initializing before GT though look harmless, it leads
to problem during driver unbind. Because of this order, GT/Engine
release functions will be called before xe devcoredump release function
(xe_driver_devcoredump_fini) leading to the following kernel crash
because the devcoredump functions might still use GT/Engine
datastructures after those are freed.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
Workqueue: events_unbound xe_devcoredump_deferred_snap_work [xe]
RIP: 0010:xe_engine_snapshot_print+0x47/0x420 [xe]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? drm_printf+0x64/0x90
__xe_devcoredump_read+0x23f/0x2d0 [xe]
? __pfx___drm_printfn_coredump+0x10/0x10
? __pfx___drm_puts_coredump+0x10/0x10
xe_devcoredump_deferred_snap_work+0x17a/0x190 [xe]
process_one_work+0x22e/0x6f0
worker_thread+0x1e8/0x3d0
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x11f/0x250
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Fixes: 4209d635a823 ("drm/xe: Remove devcoredump during driver release")
Signed-off-by: Balasubramani Vivekanandan <balasubramani.vivekanandan at intel.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c
index d04a0ae018e6..ae48cd3c7bf0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c
@@ -821,10 +821,6 @@ int xe_device_probe(struct xe_device *xe)
return err;
}
- err = xe_devcoredump_init(xe);
- if (err)
- return err;
-
/*
* From here on, if a step fails, make sure a Driver-FLR is triggereed
*/
@@ -889,6 +885,10 @@ int xe_device_probe(struct xe_device *xe)
XE_WA(xe->tiles->media_gt, 15015404425_disable))
XE_DEVICE_WA_DISABLE(xe, 15015404425);
+ err = xe_devcoredump_init(xe);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
xe_nvm_init(xe);
err = xe_heci_gsc_init(xe);
--
2.34.1
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