linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH] drm/i915: i915 null pointer dereference

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Message-ID: <20260115015454.3226069-1-rahul.bukte@sony.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:54:51 +0900
From: Rahul Bukte <rahul.bukte@...y.com>
To: intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com,
	joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com,
	rodrigo.vivi@...el.com,
	tursulin@...ulin.net
Cc: Rahul Bukte <rahul.bukte@...y.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	daniel.palmer@...y.com
Subject: [RFC PATCH] drm/i915: i915 null pointer dereference

When the i915 driver firmware binaries are not present, the
set_default_submission pointer is not set. This pointer is
dereferenced during suspend anyways.

Add a check to make sure it is set before dereferencing.

# echo +20 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm && echo mem > /sys/power/state
[   23.289926] PM: suspend entry (deep)
[   23.293558] Filesystems sync: 0.000 seconds
[   23.298010] Freezing user space processes
[   23.302771] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.000 seconds)
[   23.309766] OOM killer disabled.
[   23.313027] Freezing remaining freezable tasks
[   23.318540] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[   23.342038] serial 00:05: disabled
[   23.345719] serial 00:02: disabled
[   23.349342] serial 00:01: disabled
[   23.353782] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[   23.358993] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[   23.361635] ata1.00: Entering standby power mode
[   23.368863] ata2.00: Entering standby power mode
[   23.445187] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[   23.452194] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
[   23.457896] #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
[   23.463065] PGD 0 P4D 0 
[   23.465640] Oops: Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[   23.469869] CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 211 Comm: kworker/u48:18 Tainted: G S      W           6.19.0-rc4-00020-gf0b9d8eb98df #10 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
[   23.482512] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [W]=WARN
[   23.496511] Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn
[   23.501087] RIP: 0010:0x0
[   23.503755] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
[   23.510324] RSP: 0018:ffffb4a60065fca8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[   23.515592] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9f428290e000 RCX: 000000000000000f
[   23.522765] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000282 RDI: ffff9f428290e000
[   23.529937] RBP: ffff9f4282907070 R08: ffff9f4281130428 R09: 00000000ffffffff
[   23.537111] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff9f42829070f8
[   23.544284] R13: ffff9f4282906028 R14: ffff9f4282900000 R15: ffff9f4282906b68
[   23.551457] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9f466b2cf000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   23.559588] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   23.565365] CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000031c230001 CR4: 0000000000f70ef0
[   23.572539] PKRU: 55555554
[   23.575281] Call Trace:
[   23.577770]  <TASK>
[   23.579905]  intel_engines_reset_default_submission+0x42/0x60
[   23.585695]  __intel_gt_unset_wedged+0x191/0x200
[   23.590360]  intel_gt_unset_wedged+0x20/0x40
[   23.594675]  gt_sanitize+0x15e/0x170
[   23.598290]  i915_gem_suspend_late+0x6b/0x180
[   23.602692]  i915_drm_suspend_late+0x35/0xf0
[   23.607008]  ? __pfx_pci_pm_suspend_late+0x10/0x10
[   23.611843]  dpm_run_callback+0x78/0x1c0
[   23.615817]  device_suspend_late+0xde/0x2e0
[   23.620037]  async_suspend_late+0x18/0x30
[   23.624082]  async_run_entry_fn+0x25/0xa0
[   23.628129]  process_one_work+0x15b/0x380
[   23.632182]  worker_thread+0x2a5/0x3c0
[   23.635973]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[   23.640279]  kthread+0xf6/0x1f0
[   23.643464]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[   23.647263]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[   23.651045]  ret_from_fork+0x131/0x190
[   23.654837]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[   23.658634]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[   23.662597]  </TASK>
[   23.664826] Modules linked in:
[   23.667914] CR2: 0000000000000000
[   23.671271] ------------[ cut here ]------------

Signed-off-by: Rahul Bukte <rahul.bukte@...y.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
index b721bbd23356..ce8cdd517daa 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
@@ -1969,7 +1969,8 @@ void intel_engines_reset_default_submission(struct intel_gt *gt)
 		if (engine->sanitize)
 			engine->sanitize(engine);
 
-		engine->set_default_submission(engine);
+		if (engine->set_default_submission)
+			engine->set_default_submission(engine);
 	}
 }
 
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