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Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 13:34:13 +0200 From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl> To: "yunfei.dong@...iatek.com" <yunfei.dong@...iatek.com>, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...omium.org>, Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas@...fresne.ca>, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>, Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...labora.com>, Tiffany Lin <tiffany.lin@...iatek.com>, Andrew-CT Chen <andrew-ct.chen@...iatek.com>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...gle.com> Cc: George Sun <george.sun@...iatek.com>, Xiaoyong Lu <xiaoyong.lu@...iatek.com>, Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org>, Fritz Koenig <frkoenig@...omium.org>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, Irui Wang <irui.wang@...iatek.com>, Steve Cho <stevecho@...omium.org>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, Project_Global_Chrome_Upstream_Group@...iatek.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v6, 6/7] media: mediatek: vcodec: prevent kernel crash when scp ipi timeout On 5/18/22 13:29, yunfei.dong@...iatek.com wrote: > Dear Hans, > > Thanks for your review. > On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 11:37 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> Hi Yunfei, >> >> On 5/13/22 11:25, Yunfei Dong wrote: >>> When SCP timeout during playing video, kernel crashes with >>> following >>> message. It's caused by accessing NULL pointer in >>> vpu_dec_ipi_handler. >>> This patch doesn't solve the root cause of NULL pointer, but merely >>> prevent kernel crashed when encounter the NULL pointer. >> >> Is the root cause being addressed as well? Where is the root cause? >> Is it >> in this driver or in the scp (i.e. the remoteproc) driver? >> >> I need a bit more information to decide whether this series is ready >> to >> be merged for 5.20 or not. >> >> Regards, >> >> Hans >> > Vpu will be NUll when scp(micro processor) is hang or crash. Need to > keep kernel works well , so add this patch. OK, I think this should be stated in the commit log, and also in the code (see below). > > Best Regards, > Yunfei Dong <snip> >>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/vdec_vpu_if.c >>> b/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/vdec_vpu_if.c >>> index 35f4d5583084..1041dd663e76 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/vdec_vpu_if.c >>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/vdec_vpu_if.c >>> @@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ static void vpu_dec_ipi_handler(void *data, >>> unsigned int len, void *priv) >>> struct vdec_vpu_inst *vpu = (struct vdec_vpu_inst *) >>> (unsigned long)msg- >>>> ap_inst_addr; >>> >>> + if (!vpu) { >>> + mtk_v4l2_err("ap_inst_addr is NULL"); E.g., either add a comment here or perhaps change the error message to: "ap_inst_addr is NULL, did the SCP hang?" Or something along those lines. Shouldn't there be a \n at the end of this message as well? Or does mtk_v4l2_err add that? Regards, Hans >>> + return; >>> + } >>> + >>> mtk_vcodec_debug(vpu, "+ id=%X", msg->msg_id); >>> >>> vpu->failure = msg->status; >
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