Passing NULL ctx to request_alloc would lead to null-ptr-deref. Let's replace the comment with GEM_BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c index 1ccf252..1352d3c 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c @@ -538,9 +538,6 @@ submit_notify(struct i915_sw_fence *fence, enum i915_sw_fence_notify state) * * @engine: engine that we wish to issue the request on. * @ctx: context that the request will be associated with. - * This can be NULL if the request is not directly related to - * any specific user context, in which case this function will - * choose an appropriate context to use. * * Returns a pointer to the allocated request if successful, * or an error code if not. @@ -554,6 +551,7 @@ i915_gem_request_alloc(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, struct intel_ring *ring; int ret; + GEM_BUG_ON(!ctx); lockdep_assert_held(&dev_priv->drm.struct_mutex); /* ABI: Before userspace accesses the GPU (e.g. execbuffer), report -- 2.9.4 _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx