Re: [PATCH 0/3] nouveau: fix 3 null-ptr derefs

[jim . cromie]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi, could you please specify what hardware this is, and why exactly you're
> booting it without ACR firmware?
>
> I'm not totally against these patches, but these cards really aren't meant to
> be run with the ACR firmware these days. You're going to hit pretty regular
> issues and bitrot pretty regularly if we don't just figure out why exactly
> it's not loading - could you send a dmesg from when your system boots up so we
> could take a look?
>

ok, so this a slightly sordid / complicated tale -

In June, I installed NVIDIA proprietary drivers, to play with local LLMs
I over-installed some parts, and while sorting this out, I
over-removed a few parts too,
including the FW used by nouveau.

But because the akmodbuild was working,
it built the nvidia driver, which displaced Nouveau at boot.
It has its own FW, so the lack of nouveau compatible FW was hidden.

That said, akmodbuild fails to build on v7.3-rc* yet (v7.2 is supported)
which allowed nouveau to load, and fail due to lack of FW.

so my patches are not really needed.





> On Fri, 2026-10-02 at 12:09 -0600, Jim Cromie via B4 Relay wrote:
> > These 3 patches fix NULL ptr derefs I hit while booting kernels with
> > unrelated work (dynamic-debug) on a 2019 amdgpu+noueau laptop.  One of
> > them is possibly hard to reproduce, the others are "dependable".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Jim Cromie (3):
> >       drm/nouveau: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in GETPARAM ioctl
> >       drm/nouveau: Fix NULL pointer dereference in GET_ZCULL_INFO ioctl
> >       drm/nouveau/gsp: Fix NULL dereference in nvkm_gsp_gcx_ready()
> >
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_abi16.c           | 27 ++++++++++++++++++-----
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/device/user.c |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/base.c    |  2 +-
> >  3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > ---
> > base-commit: 72d3fcf802c45d00b300f25b848a93c3a2bd7c7e
> > change-id: 20261002-my-fixups-324d25f3bd05
> >
> > Best regards,
>
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> Cheers,
>  Lyude Paul (she/her)
>  Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
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