Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Clean the request structure on alloc

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John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This is already part of the seqno/request patch series and has been 
> right from the start. See email 'drm/i915: Zero fill the request structure'.

Indeed. Sorry for missing this one. My patch can be ignored.

But do you agree on failure path?

-Mika

> On 05/12/2014 17:54, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
>> Otherwise we might end up referencing uninitialized fields.
>> This is apparent when we try to cleanup the preallocated request
>> on ring reset, before any request has been submitted to the ring.
>> The request->ctx is foobar and we end up freeing the foobarness.
>>
>> References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86959
>> References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86962
>> References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86992
>> Cc: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
>> index 79b4ca5..2c6c6f8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
>> @@ -2030,7 +2030,7 @@ intel_ring_alloc_request(struct intel_engine_cs *ring)
>>   	if (ring->outstanding_lazy_request)
>>   		return 0;
>>   
>> -	request = kmalloc(sizeof(*request), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	request = kzalloc(sizeof(*request), GFP_KERNEL);
>>   	if (request == NULL)
>>   		return -ENOMEM;
>>   
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