This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/nouveau/fence:: fix warning directly dereferencing a rcu pointer to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-nouveau-fence-fix-warning-directly-dereferencing.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ea650db1d4e8514c1ae1690e3e4d117952ac9698 Author: Abhinav Singh <singhabhinav9051571833@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Nov 14 00:43:03 2023 +0530 drm/nouveau/fence:: fix warning directly dereferencing a rcu pointer [ Upstream commit 5f35a624c1e30b5bae5023b3c256e94e0ad4f806 ] Fix a sparse warning with this message "warning:dereference of noderef expression". In this context it means we are dereferencing a __rcu tagged pointer directly. We should not be directly dereferencing a rcu pointer. To get a normal (non __rcu tagged pointer) from a __rcu tagged pointer we are using the function unrcu_pointer(...). The non __rcu tagged pointer then can be dereferenced just like a normal pointer. I tested with qemu with this command qemu-system-x86_64 \ -m 2G \ -smp 2 \ -kernel bzImage \ -append "console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda earlyprintk=serial net.ifnames=0" \ -drive file=bullseye.img,format=raw \ -net user,host=10.0.2.10,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:10021-:22 \ -net nic,model=e1000 \ -enable-kvm \ -nographic \ -pidfile vm.pid \ 2>&1 | tee vm.log with lockdep enabled. Fixes: 0ec5f02f0e2c ("drm/nouveau: prevent stale fence->channel pointers, and protect with rcu") Signed-off-by: Abhinav Singh <singhabhinav9051571833@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20231113191303.3277733-1-singhabhinav9051571833@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv04_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv04_fence.c index 5b71a5a5cd85..cdbc75e3d1f6 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv04_fence.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv04_fence.c @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct nv04_fence_priv { static int nv04_fence_emit(struct nouveau_fence *fence) { - struct nvif_push *push = fence->channel->chan.push; + struct nvif_push *push = unrcu_pointer(fence->channel)->chan.push; int ret = PUSH_WAIT(push, 2); if (ret == 0) { PUSH_NVSQ(push, NV_SW, 0x0150, fence->base.seqno);