Calling the signaling a NULL fence is obviously a coding error in a driver. Those functions unfortunately just returned silently without raising a warning. Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c index 0393a9bba3a8..325a263ac798 100644 --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ int dma_fence_signal_timestamp(struct dma_fence *fence, ktime_t timestamp) unsigned long flags; int ret; - if (!fence) + if (WARN_ON(!fence)) return -EINVAL; spin_lock_irqsave(fence->lock, flags); @@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ int dma_fence_signal(struct dma_fence *fence) int ret; bool tmp; - if (!fence) + if (WARN_ON(!fence)) return -EINVAL; tmp = dma_fence_begin_signalling(); -- 2.34.1