Re: [PATCH] drm/amd/display: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ON

[Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>]

On 12/19/19 10:29 AM, Mikita Lipski wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/18/19 11:15 AM, Aditya Pakki wrote:
>> In skip_modeset label within dm_update_crtc_state(), the dc stream
>> cannot be NULL. Using BUG_ON as an assertion is not required and
>> can be removed. The patch replaces the check with a WARN_ON in case
>> dm_new_crtc_state->stream is NULL.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>> index 7aac9568d3be..03cb30913c20 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>> @@ -7012,7 +7012,7 @@ static int dm_update_crtc_state(struct amdgpu_display_manager *dm,
>>        * 3. Is currently active and enabled.
>>        * => The dc stream state currently exists.
>>        */
>> -    BUG_ON(dm_new_crtc_state->stream == NULL);
>> +    WARN_ON(!dm_new_crtc_state->stream);
>>   
> 
> Thanks for the patch, but this is NAK from me since it doesn't really do anything to prevent it or fix it.
> 
> If the stream is NULL and it passed this far in the function then something really wrong has happened and the process should be stopped.
> 
> I'm currently dealing with an issue where dm_new_crtc_state->stream is NULL. One of the scenarios could be that driver creates stream for a fake sink instead of failing, that is connected over MST, and calls dm_update_crtc_state to enable CRTC.
> 
>>       /* Scaling or underscan settings */
>>       if (is_scaling_state_different(dm_old_conn_state, dm_new_conn_state))
>>
> 

Thanks Mikita for your advice regarding the patch. However, would a better error handling 
in this scenario be helpful ? Clearly, the stream variable is dereferenced in 
update_stream_scaling_settings would have the same impact as a crash ?