This is only for the guilty job which was removed from the ring_mirror_list due to completion and hence will not be resubmitted by recovery and will not be freed by the usual flow in drm_sched_get_cleanup_job (see drm_sched_stop) Andrey On 3/24/20 10:45 AM, Pan, Xinhui wrote: > > [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only] > > > Does this issue occur when gpu recovery? > I just check the code,  fence timedout will free job and put its > fence. but gpu recovery might resubmit job. > Correct me if I am wrong. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* amd-gfx on behalf of > Andrey Grodzovsky > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:40:06 AM > *To:* Tao, Yintian ; Koenig, Christian > ; Deucher, Alexander > *Cc:* amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org > *Subject:* Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: hold the reference of finished fence > > On 3/23/20 10:22 AM, Yintian Tao wrote: > > There is one one corner case at dma_fence_signal_locked > > which will raise the NULL pointer problem just like below. > > ->dma_fence_signal > >      ->dma_fence_signal_locked > >        ->test_and_set_bit > > here trigger dma_fence_release happen due to the zero of fence refcount. > > > Did you find out why the zero refcount on the finished fence happens > before the fence was signaled ? The finished fence is created with > refcount set to 1 in drm_sched_fence_create->dma_fence_init and then the > refcount is decremented in > drm_sched_main->amdgpu_job_free_cb->drm_sched_job_cleanup. This should > only happen after fence is already signaled (see > drm_sched_get_cleanup_job). On top of that the finished fence is > referenced from other places (e.g. entity->last_scheduled e.t.c)... > > > > > > ->dma_fence_put > >      ->dma_fence_release > >        ->drm_sched_fence_release_scheduled > >            ->call_rcu > > here make the union fled “cb_list” at finished fence > > to NULL because struct rcu_head contains two pointer > > which is same as struct list_head cb_list > > > > Therefore, to hold the reference of finished fence at > drm_sched_process_job > > to prevent the null pointer during finished fence dma_fence_signal > > > > [  732.912867] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: > 0000000000000008 > > [  732.914815] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode > > [  732.915731] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page > > [  732.916621] PGD 0 P4D 0 > > [  732.917072] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI > > [  732.917682] CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Tainted: G           > OE     5.4.0-rc7 #1 > > [  732.918980] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, > 1996), BIOS rel-1.8.2-0-g33fbe13 by qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 > > [  732.920906] RIP: 0010:dma_fence_signal_locked+0x3e/0x100 > > [  732.938569] Call Trace: > > [  732.939003]  > > [  732.939364]  dma_fence_signal+0x29/0x50 > > [  732.940036]  drm_sched_fence_finished+0x12/0x20 [gpu_sched] > > [  732.940996]  drm_sched_process_job+0x34/0xa0 [gpu_sched] > > [  732.941910]  dma_fence_signal_locked+0x85/0x100 > > [  732.942692]  dma_fence_signal+0x29/0x50 > > [  732.943457]  amdgpu_fence_process+0x99/0x120 [amdgpu] > > [  732.944393] sdma_v4_0_process_trap_irq+0x81/0xa0 [amdgpu] > > > > v2: hold the finished fence at drm_sched_process_job instead of > >      amdgpu_fence_process > > v3: resume the blank line > > > > Signed-off-by: Yintian Tao > > --- > >   drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 2 ++ > >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c > b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c > > index a18eabf692e4..8e731ed0d9d9 100644 > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c > > @@ -651,7 +651,9 @@ static void drm_sched_process_job(struct > dma_fence *f, struct dma_fence_cb *cb) > > > >        trace_drm_sched_process_job(s_fence); > > > > +     dma_fence_get(&s_fence->finished); > >        drm_sched_fence_finished(s_fence); > > > If the fence was already released during call to > drm_sched_fence_finished->dma_fence_signal->... why is it safe to > reference the s_fence just before that call ? Can't it already be > released by this time ? > > Andrey > > > > > +     dma_fence_put(&s_fence->finished); > > wake_up_interruptible(&sched->wake_up_worker); > >   } > > > _______________________________________________ > amd-gfx mailing list > amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.freedesktop.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Famd-gfx&data=02%7C01%7Cxinhui.pan%40amd.com%7C65933fca0b414d12aab408d7cfa51165%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637206180230440562&sdata=z6ec%2BcWkwjaDgZvkpL3jOMYkBtDjbNOxlXiAk4Ri5Ck%3D&reserved=0