Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/disp: fix use-after-free in error handling of nouveau_connector_create

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 11:51:50AM +0200, Karol Herbst wrote:
> Mind sharing your kernel logs with that patch applied? I suspect your
> system boots up but you might just not have the connector available or
> something? It could be that you have one of those GPUs affected by the
> original change and then we'd have to figure out what to do with that.

Close. With your patch applied, the machine is up and I can log in and
use it. However, the output on the connected monitor stops after...

[    6.815167] ACPI: \_PR_.CP05: Found 4 idle states
[    6.825438] ACPI: \_PR_.CP06: Found 4 idle states
[    6.835661] ACPI: \_PR_.CP07: Found 4 idle states
[    7.280093] Freeing initrd memory: 8328K
[    7.601986] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3591.346 MHz
[    7.608360] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x33c46403b59, max_idle_ns: 440795293818 ns
[    7.620254] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc
[    8.337724] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[    8.350553] 00:05: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
[    8.375311] serial 0000:00:16.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[    8.403681] 0000:00:16.3: ttyS1 at I/O 0xf0a0 (irq = 17, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
[    8.424951] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[    8.432456] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered

... this line here above. It is the last one output. What you see here
below what I'm catching from serial.

[    8.456734] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
[    8.464414] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[    8.473063] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: NVIDIA GT218 (0a8c00b1)
[    8.594096] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: bios: version 70.18.83.00.08
[    8.607906] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: fb: 512 MiB DDR3
[    8.926721] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 512 MiB
[    8.931763] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB
[    8.937156] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0
[    8.942969] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0
[    8.948173] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 02000360 00000000
[    8.954696] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02000362 00020010
[    8.961211] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 028003a6 0f220010
[    8.967739] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 03: 01011380 00000000
[    8.974261] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 04: 08011382 00020010
[    8.980769] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 05: 088113c6 0f220010
[    8.987293] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00101064
[    8.993015] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 00202165
[    9.005724] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for buffer copies
[    9.023889] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for 0000:03:00.0 on minor 0
[    9.032044] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[    9.162909] megasas: 07.725.01.00-rc1
[    9.167537] st: Version 20160209, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
[    9.176058] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 3.0
[    9.194078] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 6 ports 6 Gbps 0x3 impl SATA mode
[    9.202487] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq sntf pm led clo pio slum part ems apst 
[    9.243154] scsi host0: ahci
[    9.252090] scsi host1: ahci
[    9.260389] scsi host2: ahci
[    9.268061] scsi host3: ahci
[    9.273542] scsi host4: ahci
[    9.279071] scsi host5: ahci
...

and so on until full boot.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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