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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Handle workqueue allocation failure
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On 2019-10-25 6:18 p.m., Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 06:06:26PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> On 2019-10-25 1:04 p.m., Will Deacon wrote:
>>> In the highly unlikely event that we fail to allocate the "radeon-crtc"
>>> workqueue, we should bail cleanly rather than blindly march on with a
>>> NULL pointer installed for the 'flip_queue' field of the 'radeon_crtc'
>>> structure.
>>>
>>> This was reported previously by Nicolas, but I don't think his fix was
>>> correct:
>>
>> Neither is this one I'm afraid. See my feedback on
>> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/331534/ .
>
> Thanks. Although I agree with you wrt the original patch, I don't think
> the workqueue allocation failure is distinguishable from the CRTC allocation
> failure with my patch. Are you saying that the error path there is broken
> too?

The driver won't actually work if radeon_crtc_init bails silently, it'll
just fall over at some later point.


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