Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix crash when failing to parse MIPI VBT

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 09:47:06AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 03:16:12PM +0100, rafael.barbalho@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Rafael Barbalho <rafael.barbalho@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This particular nasty presented itself while trying to register the
> > intelfb device (intel_fbdev.c). During the process of registering the device
> > the driver will disable the crtc via i9xx_crtc_disable. These will
> > also disable the panel using the generic mipi panel functions in
> > dsi_mod_vbt_generic.c. The stale MIPI generic data sequence pointers would
> > cause a crash within those functions. However, all of this is happening
> > while console_lock is held from do_register_framebuffer inside fbcon.c. Which
> > means that you got kernel log and just the device appearing to reboot/hang for
> > no apparent reason.
> 
> CONFIG_I915_FBDEV=n for when the console_lock gets in the way.
> 
> > The fault started from the FB_EVENT_FB_REGISTERED event using the
> > fb_notifier_call_chain call in fbcon.c.
> > 
> > Cc: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael Barbalho <rafael.barbalho@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.

Actually this is for fixes since 3.16 has dsi support. Also for
regressions please cite the commit that introduced the offending
behaviour. I've added that.
-Daniel

> -Daniel
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c
> > index 608ed30..a669550 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c
> > @@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ err:
> >  
> >  	/* error during parsing so set all pointers to null
> >  	 * because of partial parsing */
> > -	memset(dev_priv->vbt.dsi.sequence, 0, MIPI_SEQ_MAX);
> > +	memset(dev_priv->vbt.dsi.sequence, 0, sizeof(dev_priv->vbt.dsi.sequence));
> >  }
> >  
> >  static void parse_ddi_port(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, enum port port,
> > -- 
> > 2.0.2
> > 
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> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
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