The first tracepoint for a request is trace_dma_fence_init which is called in the ctor before we have properly setup the request->engine. So if it's a non-recycled request the rq->engine might be NULL, or some garbage value, which leads to a crash. Since we are not permitted to use kmem_cache_zalloc() here with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, one approach is simply to return DRIVER_NAME. We can then revisit this later if we decide to get rid of SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. Fixes: 855e39e65cfc ("drm/i915: Initialise basic fence before acquiring seqno") Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael Mason <michael.w.mason@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c index 1014c71cf7f5..55fa94bde22e 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static struct i915_global_request { static const char *i915_fence_get_driver_name(struct dma_fence *fence) { - return dev_name(to_request(fence)->engine->i915->drm.dev); + return DRIVER_NAME; } static const char *i915_fence_get_timeline_name(struct dma_fence *fence) -- 2.26.3