Turns out that if you trigger an HPD storm on a system that has an MST topology connected to it, you'll end up causing the kernel to eventually hit a NULL deref: [ 332.339041] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000ec [ 332.340906] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 332.342750] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI [ 332.344579] CPU: 2 PID: 25 Comm: kworker/2:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G O 4.18.0-rc3short-hpd-storm+ #2 [ 332.346453] Hardware name: LENOVO 20BWS1KY00/20BWS1KY00, BIOS JBET71WW (1.35 ) 09/14/2018 [ 332.348361] Workqueue: events intel_hpd_irq_storm_reenable_work [i915] [ 332.350301] RIP: 0010:intel_hpd_irq_storm_reenable_work.cold.3+0x2f/0x86 [i915] [ 332.352213] Code: 00 00 ba e8 00 00 00 48 c7 c6 c0 aa 5f a0 48 c7 c7 d0 73 62 a0 4c 89 c1 4c 89 04 24 e8 7f f5 af e0 4c 8b 04 24 44 89 f8 29 e8 <41> 39 80 ec 00 00 00 0f 85 43 13 fc ff 41 0f b6 86 b8 04 00 00 41 [ 332.354286] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000147e48 EFLAGS: 00010006 [ 332.356344] RAX: 0000000000000005 RBX: ffff8802c226c9d4 RCX: 0000000000000006 [ 332.358404] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: ffff88032dc95570 [ 332.360466] RBP: 0000000000000005 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88031b3dc840 [ 332.362528] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000031a069602 R12: ffff8802c226ca20 [ 332.364575] R13: ffff8802c2268000 R14: ffff880310661000 R15: 000000000000000a [ 332.366615] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88032dc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 332.368658] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 332.370690] CR2: 00000000000000ec CR3: 000000000200a003 CR4: 00000000003606e0 [ 332.372724] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 332.374773] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 332.376798] Call Trace: [ 332.378809] process_one_work+0x1a1/0x350 [ 332.380806] worker_thread+0x30/0x380 [ 332.382777] ? wq_update_unbound_numa+0x10/0x10 [ 332.384772] kthread+0x112/0x130 [ 332.386740] ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70 [ 332.388706] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 [ 332.390651] Modules linked in: i915(O) vfat fat joydev btusb btrtl btbcm btintel bluetooth ecdh_generic iTCO_wdt wmi_bmof i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper intel_rapl syscopyarea sysfillrect x86_pkg_temp_thermal sysimgblt coretemp fb_sys_fops crc32_pclmul drm psmouse pcspkr mei_me mei i2c_i801 lpc_ich mfd_core i2c_core tpm_tis tpm_tis_core thinkpad_acpi wmi tpm rfkill video crc32c_intel serio_raw ehci_pci xhci_pci ehci_hcd xhci_hcd [last unloaded: i915] [ 332.394963] CR2: 00000000000000ec This appears to be due to the fact that with an MST topology, not all intel_connector structs will have ->encoder set. So, fix this by skipping connectors without encoders in intel_hpd_irq_storm_reenable_work(). For those wondering, this bug was found on accident while simulating HPD storms using a Chamelium connected to a ThinkPad T450s (Broadwell). Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_hotplug.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_hotplug.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_hotplug.c index 648a13c6043c..7d21aac10d16 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_hotplug.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_hotplug.c @@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ static void intel_hpd_irq_storm_reenable_work(struct work_struct *work) drm_for_each_connector_iter(connector, &conn_iter) { struct intel_connector *intel_connector = to_intel_connector(connector); - if (intel_connector->encoder->hpd_pin == pin) { + if (intel_connector->encoder && + intel_connector->encoder->hpd_pin == pin) { if (connector->polled != intel_connector->polled) DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("Reenabling HPD on connector %s\n", connector->name); -- 2.17.2 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel