Bug 21908 - SIGSEGV when no kernel DRM present
Summary: SIGSEGV when no kernel DRM present
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/nouveau (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium major
Assignee: Nouveau Project
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2009-05-24 03:58 UTC by Ilia Sotnikov
Modified: 2009-08-09 09:36 UTC (History)
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Patch for SIGSEGV when no kernel-side DRM is present (1.67 KB, patch)
2009-05-24 03:58 UTC, Ilia Sotnikov
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Description Ilia Sotnikov 2009-05-24 03:58:52 UTC
Created attachment 26165 [details] [review]
Patch for SIGSEGV when no kernel-side DRM is present

The nouveau driver (from git on 13/04/2009) experienced SIGSEGV when no kernel-side DRM is present.
The component version:
xserver: 1.5.3
libdrm: 2.4.9
xf86-video-nouveau: git from 13/04/2009

The problem was narrowed down to nv_driver.c:NVMapMemSW() - the function declares 'struct nouveau_device', which in fact, should be 'struct nouveau_device_priv' for DRM related functions to work properly.

The crashes were related to the accesses to 'mm_enabled' field of 'struct nouveau_device_priv', which points to a garbage when only 'struct nouveau_device' declared.

Attached patch (against git from 13/04/2009) solved the problem.
Comment 1 Pekka Paalanen 2009-08-09 09:36:06 UTC
Nowadays Nouveau cannot work without DRM, since it uses the memory management (GEM+TTM) even in NoAccel mode. Non-DRM mode is gone by commit http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/xf86-video-nouveau/commit/?id=f8ac9e35bd20391f923c5c5ccc509251ea23a4c5

Therefore closing this report, thanks.


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