[Nouveau] [PATCH] device: return error for unknown chipsets

[Jeremy Cline]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 06:46:35PM +0200, Karol Herbst wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 6:43 PM dann frazier <dann.frazier at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 03:52:30PM +0200, Karol Herbst wrote:
> > > Previously the code relied on device->pri to be NULL and to fail probing
> > > later. We really should just return an error inside nvkm_device_ctor for
> > > unsupported GPUs.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 24d5ff40a732 ("drm/nouveau/device: rework mmio mapping code to get rid of second map")
> > > Signed-off-by: Karol Herbst <kherbst at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: dann frazier <dann.frazier at canonical.com>
> >
> > Thanks Karol! Got rid of the Oops for me.
> >
> > Tested-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier at canonical.com>
> >
> > Would it be appropriate to tag this for stable v5.8+?
> >
> 
> Due to the Fixes: tags it will get auto selected for stable releases
> afaik. But I think an explicit send might speed it up? I think it's
> fine either way.
> 

The patch looks to only applies to the out-of-tree driver (is it normal
to send patches this way?) so it'll need adjustment if it's Cc'd to
stable, but the easiest, most reliable way to make sure it's picked up
is to add an explicit Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org tag to the commit.

Also:

Reviewed-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline at redhat.com>

> >   -dann
> >
> > > ---
> > >  drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/device/base.c | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/device/base.c b/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/device/base.c
> > > index 9f4ac2672..68d665414 100644
> > > --- a/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/device/base.c
> > > +++ b/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/device/base.c
> > > @@ -3149,6 +3149,7 @@ nvkm_device_ctor(const struct nvkm_device_func *func,
> > >               case 0x168: device->chip = &nv168_chipset; break;
> > >               default:
> > >                       nvdev_error(device, "unknown chipset (%08x)\n", boot0);
> > > +                     ret = -ENOSYS;
> > >                       goto done;
> > >               }
> > >
> >
> 
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