Re: drm/i915: Use the i915_device name for identifying our, request fences

[Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>]

On 12/12/2019 20:38, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Colin Ian King (2019-12-12 19:53:33)
>> Hi,
>>
>> Static analysis with Coverity has picked up an issue with the following
>> commit:
>>
>> commit 65c29dbb19b2451990c5c477fef7ada3b8218f05
>> Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
>> Date:   Wed Dec 11 15:02:04 2019 +0000
>>
>>     drm/i915: Use the i915_device name for identifying our request fences
>>
>> In source drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c and function
>> i915_fence_get_timeline_name there is the following:
>>
>>         return to_request(fence)->gem_context->name ?: "[" DRIVER_NAME "]";
>>
>> However name is an array: char name[TASK_COMM_LEN + 8], so it can never
>> be null, so the ternary operator will always return name and will never
>> reaturn "[" DRIVER_NAME "]".  Should it instead be checking if name[0]
>> is '\0' instead?
> 
> It's older than that patch, we made it a char[] some time ago. There's a
> patch pending to make it conditional on ce->gem_context instead.
> -Chris
> 
Ah, thanks for looking into that.

Colin