[PATCH] drm/sched: Create faux device for KUnit tests
From: oushixiong1025
Date: Wed Aug 26 2026 - 04:18:11 EST
From: Shixiong Ou <oushixiong@xxxxxxxxxx>
The DRM scheduler KUnit tests currently pass NULL for the dev field in
drm_sched_init_args, which causes a NULL pointer dereference in the
drm_sched_job trace event when it calls dev_name() on sched->dev.
Use faux_device_create() to create a fake device for the mock scheduler,
so the scheduler always has a valid device pointer. This avoids the
trace event crash without requiring the production code to accept a NULL
device pointer, which conceptually makes no sense for a scheduler.
An atomic counter is used to generate unique device names, since
multiple mock schedulers can exist simultaneously across different
test suites.
Signed-off-by: Shixiong Ou <oushixiong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/tests/mock_scheduler.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/tests/sched_tests.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/tests/mock_scheduler.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/tests/mock_scheduler.c
index 14403a762335..cd87e405bb1e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/tests/mock_scheduler.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/tests/mock_scheduler.c
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/* Copyright (c) 2025 Valve Corporation */
+#include <linux/device/faux.h>
+
#include "sched_tests.h"
/*
@@ -10,6 +12,8 @@
* Test cases are implemented in a separate file.
*/
+static atomic_t drm_mock_sched_instance = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+
/**
* drm_mock_sched_entity_new - Create a new mock scheduler entity
*
@@ -296,11 +300,20 @@ struct drm_mock_scheduler *drm_mock_sched_new(struct kunit *test, long timeout)
.name = "drm-mock-scheduler",
};
struct drm_mock_scheduler *sched;
+ char name[64];
int ret;
sched = kunit_kzalloc(test, sizeof(*sched), GFP_KERNEL);
KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(test, sched);
+ snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "drm-mock-scheduler-%d",
+ atomic_inc_return(&drm_mock_sched_instance));
+
+ sched->faux_dev = faux_device_create(name, NULL, NULL);
+ KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(test, sched->faux_dev);
+
+ args.dev = &sched->faux_dev->dev;
+
ret = drm_sched_init(&sched->base, &args);
KUNIT_ASSERT_EQ(test, ret, 0);
@@ -323,6 +336,7 @@ struct drm_mock_scheduler *drm_mock_sched_new(struct kunit *test, long timeout)
void drm_mock_sched_fini(struct drm_mock_scheduler *sched)
{
drm_sched_fini(&sched->base);
+ faux_device_destroy(sched->faux_dev);
}
/**
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/tests/sched_tests.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/tests/sched_tests.h
index 553d45abd057..bbf4da585866 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/tests/sched_tests.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/tests/sched_tests.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#include <kunit/test.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
+#include <linux/device/faux.h>
#include <linux/dma-fence.h>
#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
#include <linux/ktime.h>
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ struct drm_mock_scheduler {
struct drm_gpu_scheduler base;
struct kunit *test;
+ struct faux_device *faux_dev;
spinlock_t lock;
struct list_head job_list;
--
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