On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 11:43:52PM +0200, Alexandru Moise wrote: > If the DRM core fails to init for whatever reason, ensure that > no driver ever calls drm_dev_register(). > > This is best done at drm_dev_init() as it covers drivers that call > drm_dev_alloc() as well as drivers that prefer to embed struct > drm_device into their own device struct and call drm_dev_init() > themselves. > > In my case I had so many dynamic device majors used that the major > number for DRM (226) was stolen, causing DRM core init to fail after > failing to register a chrdev, and ultimately calling debugfs_remove() > on drm_debugfs_root in drm_core_exit(). > > After drm core failed to init, VGEM was still calling drm_dev_register(), > ultimately leading to drm_debugfs_init(), with drm_debugfs_root passed > as the root for the new debugfs dir at debugfs_create_dir(). > > This led to a kernel panic once we were either derefencing root->d_inode > while it was NULL or calling root->d_inode->i_op->lookup() while it was > NULL in debugfs at inode_lock() or lookup_*(). > > Signed-off-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c > index 37b8ad3e30d8..2ed2d919beae 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c > @@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ module_param_named(debug, drm_debug, int, 0600); > static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(drm_minor_lock); > static struct idr drm_minors_idr; > > +/* > + * If the drm core fails to init for whatever reason, > + * we should prevent any drivers from registering with it. > + * It's best to check this at drm_dev_init(), as some drivers > + * prefer to embed struct drm_device into their own device > + * structure and call drm_dev_init() themselves. > + */ > +static bool drm_core_init_complete = false; > + > static struct dentry *drm_debugfs_root; > > #define DRM_PRINTK_FMT "[" DRM_NAME ":%s]%s %pV" > @@ -484,6 +493,11 @@ int drm_dev_init(struct drm_device *dev, > { > int ret; > > + if (!drm_core_init_complete) { > + DRM_ERROR("DRM core is not initialized\n"); > + return -ENODEV; > + } > + > kref_init(&dev->ref); > dev->dev = parent; > dev->driver = driver; > @@ -966,6 +980,8 @@ static int __init drm_core_init(void) > if (ret < 0) > goto error; > > + drm_core_init_complete = true; > + > DRM_DEBUG("Initialized\n"); > return 0; Isn't the correct fix to pass down the error value, which iirc should make the kmod stuff unload the module again? Or does this not work' -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel