On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:11:50AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > Hi Folks, > I know this thread eventually dropped off due to not identifying > the underlying issue. It's still occuring on 5.8 and in my case it > happened because the udev device nodes for the DP aux devices were not > cleaned up whereas the kernel had no association with them. I can > reproduce the bug just by creating a device node for a non-existent minor > device and calling open(). Hm I don't have that thread anymore, but generally these bugs are solved by not registering the device before it's ready for use. We do have drm_connector->late_register for that stuff. Just a guess since I'm not seeing full details here. -Daniel > > To me it still makes sense to just check aux_dev because the chardev has > no way to check before calling. > > (gdb) list *drm_dp_aux_dev_get_by_minor+0x29 > 0x17b39 is in drm_dp_aux_dev_get_by_minor (drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_aux_dev.c:65). > 60 static struct drm_dp_aux_dev *drm_dp_aux_dev_get_by_minor(unsigned index) > 61 { > 62 struct drm_dp_aux_dev *aux_dev = NULL; > 63 > 64 mutex_lock(&aux_idr_mutex); > 65 aux_dev = idr_find(&aux_idr, index); > 66 if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&aux_dev->refcount)) > 67 aux_dev = NULL; > 68 mutex_unlock(&aux_idr_mutex); > 69 > (gdb) p/x &((struct drm_dp_aux_dev *)(0x0))->refcount > $8 = 0x18 > > static int auxdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) > { > unsigned int minor = iminor(inode); > struct drm_dp_aux_dev *aux_dev; > > aux_dev = drm_dp_aux_dev_get_by_minor(minor); > if (!aux_dev) > return -ENODEV; > > file->private_data = aux_dev; > return 0; > } > > > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel -- 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