The patch below does not apply to the 6.16-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.16.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 358ee50ab565f3c8ea32480e9d03127a81ba32f8 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025100327-kindly-attic-f695@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.16.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 358ee50ab565f3c8ea32480e9d03127a81ba32f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20Hellstr=C3=B6m?= thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:30:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] drm/xe/vm: Clear the scratch_pt pointer on error MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Avoid triggering a dereference of an error pointer on cleanup in xe_vm_free_scratch() by clearing any scratch_pt error pointer.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com Fixes: 06951c2ee72d ("drm/xe: Use NULL PTEs as scratch PTEs") Cc: Brian Welty brian.welty@intel.com Cc: Rodrigo Vivi rodrigo.vivi@intel.com Cc: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.8+ Reviewed-by: Matthew Brost matthew.brost@intel.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250821143045.106005-4-thomas.hellstrom@linux.int...
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c index c86337e08a55..d3f6dc6b1779 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c @@ -1635,8 +1635,12 @@ static int xe_vm_create_scratch(struct xe_device *xe, struct xe_tile *tile,
for (i = MAX_HUGEPTE_LEVEL; i < vm->pt_root[id]->level; i++) { vm->scratch_pt[id][i] = xe_pt_create(vm, tile, i); - if (IS_ERR(vm->scratch_pt[id][i])) - return PTR_ERR(vm->scratch_pt[id][i]); + if (IS_ERR(vm->scratch_pt[id][i])) { + int err = PTR_ERR(vm->scratch_pt[id][i]); + + vm->scratch_pt[id][i] = NULL; + return err; + }
xe_pt_populate_empty(tile, vm, vm->scratch_pt[id][i]); }