Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/nouveau: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in GETPARAM ioctl

[lyude@redhat.com]

On Sat, 2026-08-15 at 11:30 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> When hardware or firmware initialization fails, the graphics engine
> (gr) or device functions may remain NULL. Attempting to access these
> during the GETPARAM ioctl (e.g., NOUVEAU_GETPARAM_GRAPH_UNITS)
> results
> in a kernel NULL pointer dereference, causing a crash when userspace
> (GNOME/Mesa) attempts to probe the device.
> 
> Add safety checks for 'gr', 'gr->func', and 'nvkm_device->func' in
> the
> ioctl handler. Return -ENODEV to signal the missing hardware state to
> userspace, and use NV_ERROR_ONCE to provide diagnostic proof in the
> kernel log without risking a console flood.
> 
> RFC:
> 
> These crashes may not be repeatable, they happened while I was trying
> to build nouveau as a builtin module, with binary blobs in the kernel
> image, on a laptop with an encrypted disk.  Gemini tells me this
> won't
> work, so I punted.

"Gemini tells me this won't work, so I punted."

I'm sorry, what exactly do you mean here? And could you clarify what
LLMs were used for in writing this series? Code generation, analysis,
etc.?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>