Re: radeon.ko/i586: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference,address:00000004

[<kkabe@vega.pgw.jp>]

rostedt@goodmis.org sed in <20230714100019.6bf9b1ab@gandalf.local.home>

>> On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:34:04 +0900
>> <kkabe@vega.pgw.jp> wrote:
>> 
>> > >> > So I'm confused about why it's mentioned. Was it backported?  
>> > >> 
>> > >> Taketo Kabe, could you please help to clean this confusion up? Did you
>> > >> mean 5.19 in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217669#c5 ? And
>> > >> BTW: did you really use a vanilla kernel for your bisection?  
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Reporter Me:
>> > I bisected using freedesktop.org kernel tree, which git commit ID is
>> > in sync with kernel.org
>> > but version number in ./Makefile could be slighty behind. 
>> > 
>> > Patch in
>> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217669#c4
>> > fixed the problem in freedesktop.org kernel 5.18.0-rc2 .
>> > This may explain that in kernel.org tree, the said commit is in kernel-5.19.
>> 
>> Even if the bisect did land on this commit, it doesn't make sense. I would
>> think that one of the results of the bisect was incorrect (a pass that
>> should have failed?), as that would lead the bisect down to the wrong
>> conclusion.
>> 
>> Now if you you remove this commit and everything works fine, and add it
>> back again and it fails reliably, then I can't argue it is not the commit.

I agree with that it does not make sense.
But reverting that commit made the freedesktop.org kernel-5.18-0-rc2 not panic,
and adding it back made kernel panic
(actually, check for vblank->worker==NULL fires)

>> 
>> But the commit in question kicks off a worker thread at boot up to search
>> for weak functions that were tagged to be traced by the function tracer and
>> sets them to "disabled" to never be traced.
>> 
>> Is the function tracer used at all here? I really do not see how this
>> commit affects the code that is crashing. Unless there's something wrong
>> with the way the kworker was set up and it corrupted other kworkers :-/
>> -- Steve

Yes, this is puzzling. That's why I need other people's opinion on this.
Does it matter the DUT is a slow machine (Pentium 120MHz)?

-- 
kabe