This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/i915/ppgtt: Break loop in gen8_ppgtt_clear_range failure path to the 4.1-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-i915-ppgtt-break-loop-in-gen8_ppgtt_clear_range-failure-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 00245266b4be4fbe989ee073663f56716da6c1f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:59:38 +0100 Subject: drm/i915/ppgtt: Break loop in gen8_ppgtt_clear_range failure path From: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@xxxxxxxxx> commit 00245266b4be4fbe989ee073663f56716da6c1f3 upstream. If for some reason [1], the page directory/table does not exist, clear_range would end up in an infinite while loop. Introduced by commit 06fda602dbca ("drm/i915: Create page table allocators"). [1] This is already being addressed in one of Mika's patches: http://mid.gmane.org/1432314314-23530-17-git-send-email-mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: John Harrison <john.c.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c @@ -502,17 +502,17 @@ static void gen8_ppgtt_clear_range(struc struct page *page_table; if (WARN_ON(!ppgtt->pdp.page_directory[pdpe])) - continue; + break; pd = ppgtt->pdp.page_directory[pdpe]; if (WARN_ON(!pd->page_table[pde])) - continue; + break; pt = pd->page_table[pde]; if (WARN_ON(!pt->page)) - continue; + break; page_table = pt->page; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from michel.thierry@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/drm-i915-ppgtt-break-loop-in-gen8_ppgtt_clear_range-failure-path.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