On Wed, 2020-08-12 at 16:10 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:16 AM Zwane Mwaikambo <zwanem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > In this particular case, the physical device disappeared before the nodes
> > were cleaned up. It involves putting a computer to sleep with a monitor
> > plugged in and then waking it up with the monitor unplugged.
>
> We also have early_unregister for the reverse, but yes this sounds
> more tricky ... Adding Lyude who's been working on way too much
> lifetime fun around dp recently.
> -Daniel
>
Hi-I think just checking whether the auxdev is NULL or not is a reasonable
fix, although I am curious as to how exactly the aux dev's parent is getting
destroyed before it's child, which I would have thought would be the only way
you could hit this?
> >
> > > > 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;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > >
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Cheers,
Lyude Paul (she/her)
Software Engineer at Red Hat
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