Re: [PATCH v2] drm/sched: Don't crash kernel on wrong params

[Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>]

On 12/11/2025 09:18, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> drm_sched_job_arm() just panics the kernel with BUG_ON() in case of an
> entity being NULL. If the entity is NULL, subsequent accesses will crash
> the particular CPU anyways with a NULL pointer exception backtrace.
> 
> Remove the BUG_ON().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <phasta@kernel.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>    - Drop BUG_ON() instead of replacing it. (Tvrtko)

The option of removing the BUG_ON was conditional on brainstorming a bit 
whether we think the null pointer dereference is the worst that can 
happen or not.

Other option was "WARN_ON_ONCE() return" in arm and push.

Problem being, if we allow it to continue, are we opening up the 
possibly to mess up the kernel in a worse way.

For example push job writes to the entity. Okay offsets are low so is 
the zero page always safe to write? I don't know but sounds scary. From 
that point of view BUG_ON or WARN_ON_ONCE with exit are safer options.

Regards,

Tvrtko

> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> index 1d4f1b822e7b..05eb50d4cf08 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> @@ -857,7 +857,6 @@ void drm_sched_job_arm(struct drm_sched_job *job)
>   	struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched;
>   	struct drm_sched_entity *entity = job->entity;
>   
> -	BUG_ON(!entity);
>   	drm_sched_entity_select_rq(entity);
>   	sched = entity->rq->sched;
>