This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled i915: remove pm_qos request on error to the 3.12-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: i915-remove-pm_qos-request-on-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 22accca01713b13dac386ca90b787aadf88f6551 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:13:37 +0100 Subject: i915: remove pm_qos request on error From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 22accca01713b13dac386ca90b787aadf88f6551 upstream. Not removing pm qos request and free memory for it can cause crash, when some other driver use pm qos. For example, this oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff8 IP: [<ffffffff81307a6b>] plist_add+0x5b/0xd0 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810acf25>] pm_qos_update_target+0x125/0x1e0 [<ffffffff810ad071>] pm_qos_add_request+0x91/0x100 [<ffffffffa053ec14>] e1000_open+0xe4/0x5b0 [e1000e] was caused by earlier i915 probe failure: [drm:i915_report_and_clear_eir] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking [drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring initialization failed ctl 0001f001 head 00003004 tail 00000000 start 00003000 [drm:i915_driver_load] *ERROR* failed to init modeset i915: probe of 0000:00:02.0 failed with error -5 Bug report: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057533 Reported-by: Giandomenico De Tullio <ghisha@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> [danvet: Drop unnecessary code movement.] Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c @@ -1683,6 +1683,7 @@ out_gem_unload: intel_teardown_gmbus(dev); intel_teardown_mchbar(dev); + pm_qos_remove_request(&dev_priv->pm_qos); destroy_workqueue(dev_priv->wq); out_mtrrfree: arch_phys_wc_del(dev_priv->gtt.mtrr); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.12/i915-remove-pm_qos-request-on-error.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html