linux-kernel - Re: regression with mainline kernel

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Message-ID: <CADVatmN7rQYhWJQao3qXz7TZxz5piN+kN4g4tV_wYC4=uxtgtA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 13 Nov 2021 21:34:53 +0000
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Gurchetan Singh <gurchetansingh@...omium.org>,
        Nicholas Verne <nverne@...omium.org>,
        Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "open list:VIRTIO GPU DRIVER" 
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Subject: Re: regression with mainline kernel

Hi Linus,

On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 5:07 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> [ Hmm. This email was marked as spam for me. I see no obvious reason
> for it being marked as spam, but it happens.. ]
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 12:52 PM Sudip Mukherjee
> <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > # first bad commit: [cd7f5ca33585918febe5e2f6dc090a21cfa775b0]
> > drm/virtio: implement context init: add virtio_gpu_fence_event
>
> Hmm. Judging from your automated screenshots, the login never appears.
>

<snip>

>
> HOWEVER - it has had a fix for a NULL pointer dereference in the
> meantime - can you check whether the current top of tree happens to
> work for you? Maybe your problem isn't due to "that commit does
> unnatural things", but simply due to the bug fixed in d89c0c8322ec
> ("drm/virtio: Fix NULL dereference error in virtio_gpu_poll").
>
> And if it's still broken with that commit, I'll happily revert it and
> people need to go back to the drawing board.

I sent another mail yesterday which is now at
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CADVatmOOzCxAgLhCu1tTz=44sgRDXds5-oMZ3V0w4f5kLCLKrw@mail.gmail.com/
I will just pase that here for you.

Last night's test on 66f4beaa6c1d worked fine. So I guess this has now
been fixed.

I have not done a bisect to see what has fixed it, but looking at the
log I think it will be that NULL pointer fix.


-- 
Regards
Sudip