Problems with Kernels 3.17-rc1 and onwards on Acube Sam460 AMCC 460ex board

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 07:46 -0400, Julian Margetson wrote:
> Still stuck.
> Problem still exist with 4.0.0-rc2 and I cant finish the bisect.
> Triggered when using HDMI. No problem when using DVI.

> [   33.535692] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000008
> [   33.566786] Faulting instruction address: 0xc049db84
> [   33.574188] Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [eeb13c20]
> [   33.579086]     pc: c049db84: radeon_audio_enable+0x4/0x18
> [   33.584630]     lr: c049e2f4: radeon_audio_detect+0x288/0x290
> [   33.590429]     sp: eeb13cd0
> [   33.593310]    msr: 29000
> [   33.595931]    dar: 8
> [   33.598207]  dsisr: 0
> [   33.600480]   current = 0xeea93ac0
> [   33.603885]     pid   = 2311, comm = Xorg
> [   33.607922] enter ? for help
> [   33.610806] [link register   ] c049e2f4 radeon_audio_detect+0x288/0x290
> [   33.617469] [eeb13cd0] c049e254 radeon_audio_detect+0x1e8/0x290 (unreliable)
> [   33.624571] [eeb13d00] c03dfe7c radeon_dvi_detect+0x388/0x3ac
> [   33.630369] [eeb13d30] c038b9d4 drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes_merge_bits+0xf4/0x434
> [   33.638954] [eeb13d70] c03a7670 drm_mode_getconnector+0xf4/0x334
> [   33.645022] [eeb13e10] c039a8c0 drm_ioctl+0x348/0x464
> [   33.650135] [eeb13ed0] c00d0ca0 do_vfs_ioctl+0x52c/0x6e8
> [   33.655507] [eeb13f20] c00d0e9c SyS_ioctl+0x40/0x68
> [   33.660438] [eeb13f40] c000ab04 ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x3c
> [   33.665896] --- Exception: c01 (System Call) at 6fb1b8dc
> [   33.671253] SP (bfa56d20) is in userspace
> [   33.675263] mon>  <no input ...>

This just looks like a missing NULL check in the radeon code. Probably here:

void radeon_audio_detect(struct drm_connector *connector,
	enum drm_connector_status status)
{
	struct radeon_device *rdev;
	struct radeon_encoder *radeon_encoder;
	struct radeon_encoder_atom_dig *dig;

	if (!connector || !connector->encoder)
		return;

	rdev = connector->encoder->dev->dev_private;
	                           ^

So you could try adding "!connector->encoder->dev" to the if there.

cheers