Hi Thomas!

On 9/4/26 08:19, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Am 03.09.26 um 16:07 schrieb Thorsten Leemhuis:
>> On 7/3/26 09:26, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>>> Am 02.07.26 um 20:23 schrieb Roman Ilin:
>>>> Apologies, I accidentally fired off send-email before saving my final
>>>> changelog notes. Please ignore the changelog and notes in the original
>>>> v3 email.
>>> We want to know when this happens. And user space will only be able to
>>> trigger this once, so there's no risk of spamming the kernel log.
>>>> Hmmm, just wondering: what's the status here?
>>
>> Roman Ilin, did you loose interest? Or was this continued somewhere or
>> maybe even resolved and I just missed that?
>>
>> Thomas: if Roman left this behind, could you maybe handle this, [...]
>
> AFAICT it was almost there except for the error messaging. The v4 then
> never happened. I can finish the patch if Roman is no longer around.

No answer from Roman since then, so yes, that would be great! Tia!

Ciao, Thorsten

>>> So this is not really a problem. drm_WARN_ON_ONCE was ok for that. You
>>> can also use a regular DRM print macro. But instead of drm_dbg_kms()
>>> should use drm_err_once(). But please also output linedur_ns and
>>> framedur_ns in the error. We want to know which of them is incorrect.
>>> You can also add more information to the error message. See [1] for the
>>> mode-formating macros.
>>>
>>> [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.1.2/source/include/drm/
>>> drm_modes.h#L422
>>>
>>>
>>>> - Updated drm_calc_timestamping_constants with the goto error fallback
>>>>     to clear the stale state.
>>>>
>>>> Also, an automated review bot pointed out an AB-BA deadlock in
>>>> drm_crtc_vblank_start_timer(). But I am leaving this out of the
>>>> patch to
>>>> keep the fixes orthogonal.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the noise.
>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 2, 2026, at 21:10, Roman Ilin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> When a CRTC's display mode carries a too small pixel clock,
>>>>> drm_calc_timestamping_constants() computes a frame duration that
>>>>> exceeds INT_MAX. drm_vblank_crtc.framedur_ns becomes negative.
>>>>> drm_crtc_vblank_start_timer() then arms the vblank hrtimer with this
>>>>> interval, after which vblank events are no longer delivered. Pending
>>>>> page flips never complete and the display appears frozen.
>>>>>
>>>>> This could be triggered on virtio-gpu guests that have dynamic
>>>>> resolution
>>>>> enabled: when the SPICE agent or the X server resizes the output, it
>>>>> submits a mode whose pixel clock is off by a factor of 1000, e.g.:
>>>>>
>>>>>      clock = 406 kHz, htotal = 3152, vtotal = 2148
>>>>>
>>>>>      framedur_ns = 3152 * 2148 * 1000000 / 406 = 16675852216 ns
>>>>> (~16.7 s)
>>>>>
>>>>> 16675852216 does not fit into an int and wraps to roughly -504000000.
>>>>> ns_to_ktime() then yields a negative interval and the timer stops
>>>>> working.
>>>>>
>>>>> Found by bisection, which pointed at commit a036f5fceedb ("drm/
>>>>> virtgpu:
>>>>> Use vblank timer"). That commit merely made virtio-gpu use the vblank
>>>>> timer and thereby exposed the pre-existing problem in the timer setup
>>>>> added by commit 74afeb812850 ("drm/vblank: Add vblank timer").
>>>>>
>>>>> To fix this, modify drm_calc_timestamping_constants() to use u64 for
>>>>> calculations, check for INT_MAX overflows, and return an error code.
>>>>> drm_crtc_vblank_start_timer() will then propagate the error, enabling
>>>>> the driver to fall back to immediate vblank events. Valid modes are
>>>>> unaffected, and the timer self-heals on the next mode with a sane
>>>>> clock.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: 74afeb812850 ("drm/vblank: Add vblank timer")
>>>>> Suggested-by: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Roman Ilin <[email protected]>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Changes in v3:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Changed the WARN_ON_ONCE to drm_err_once
>>>>>
>>>>> Notes:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>>>>> include/drm/drm_vblank.h     |  4 +-
>>>>> 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/
>>>>> drm_vblank.c
>>>>> index f90fb2d13..629b9fcc7 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c
>>>>> @@ -631,42 +631,51 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_crtc_vblank_waitqueue);
>>>>>    * drm_crtc_vblank_helper_get_vblank_timestamp(). They are
>>>>> derived from
>>>>>    * CRTC's true scanout timing, so they take things like panel
>>>>> scaling or
>>>>>    * other adjustments into account.
>>>>> + *
>>>>> + * Returns:
>>>>> + * 0 on success, or a negative errno code otherwise.
>>>>>    */
>>>>> -void drm_calc_timestamping_constants(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>>>>> -     const struct drm_display_mode *mode)
>>>>> +int drm_calc_timestamping_constants(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>>>>> +    const struct drm_display_mode *mode)
>>>>> {
>>>>> struct drm_device *dev = crtc->dev;
>>>>> unsigned int pipe = drm_crtc_index(crtc);
>>>>> struct drm_vblank_crtc *vblank = drm_crtc_vblank_crtc(crtc);
>>>>> - int linedur_ns = 0, framedur_ns = 0;
>>>>> + u64 linedur_ns, framedur_ns;
>>>>> int dotclock = mode->crtc_clock;
>>>>> + unsigned int frame_size;
>>>>>
>>>>> if (!drm_dev_has_vblank(dev))
>>>>> - return;
>>>>> + return 0;
>>>>>
>>>>> if (drm_WARN_ON(dev, pipe >= dev->num_crtcs))
>>>>> - return;
>>>>> + return -EINVAL;
>>>>>
>>>>> - /* Valid dotclock? */
>>>>> - if (dotclock > 0) {
>>>>> - int frame_size = mode->crtc_htotal * mode->crtc_vtotal;
>>>>> + if (dotclock <= 0) {
>>>>> + drm_err(dev, "crtc %u: Can't calculate constants, dotclock = %d!\n",
>>> Please turn this into drm_err_once() because this call can actually be
>>> triggered repeatedly from userspace.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>>> + crtc->base.id, dotclock);
>>>>> + goto error;
>>>>> + }
>>>>>
>>>>> - /*
>>>>> - * Convert scanline length in pixels and video
>>>>> - * dot clock to line duration and frame duration
>>>>> - * in nanoseconds:
>>>>> - */
>>>>> - linedur_ns  = div_u64((u64) mode->crtc_htotal * 1000000, dotclock);
>>>>> - framedur_ns = div_u64((u64) frame_size * 1000000, dotclock);
>>>>> + frame_size = (unsigned int)mode->crtc_htotal * (unsigned int)mode-
>>>>>> crtc_vtotal;
>>>>> - /*
>>>>> - * Fields of interlaced scanout modes are only half a frame duration.
>>>>> - */
>>>>> - if (mode->flags & DRM_MODE_FLAG_INTERLACE)
>>>>> - framedur_ns /= 2;
>>>>> - } else {
>>>>> - drm_err(dev, "crtc %u: Can't calculate constants, dotclock = 0!\n",
>>>>> - crtc->base.id);
>>>>> + /*
>>>>> + * Convert scanline length in pixels and video dot clock to line
>>>>> duration
>>>>> + * and frame duration in nanoseconds.
>>>>> + */
>>>>> + linedur_ns  = div_u64((u64)mode->crtc_htotal * 1000000, dotclock);
>>>>> + framedur_ns = div_u64((u64)frame_size * 1000000, dotclock);
>>>>> +
>>>>> + /*
>>>>> + * Fields of interlaced scanout modes are only half a frame duration.
>>>>> + */
>>>>> + if (mode->flags & DRM_MODE_FLAG_INTERLACE)
>>>>> + framedur_ns /= 2;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if (linedur_ns > INT_MAX || framedur_ns > INT_MAX) {
>>>>> + drm_dbg_kms(dev, "crtc %u: Can't calculate constants, mode clock
>>>>> too small!\n",
>>>>> +    crtc->base.id);
>>>>> + goto error;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> vblank->linedur_ns  = linedur_ns;
>>>>> @@ -678,7 +687,16 @@ void drm_calc_timestamping_constants(struct
>>>>> drm_crtc *crtc,
>>>>>       crtc->base.id, mode->crtc_htotal,
>>>>>       mode->crtc_vtotal, mode->crtc_vdisplay);
>>>>> drm_dbg_core(dev, "crtc %u: clock %d kHz framedur %d linedur %d\n",
>>>>> -     crtc->base.id, dotclock, framedur_ns, linedur_ns);
>>>>> +     crtc->base.id, dotclock,
>>>>> +     vblank->framedur_ns, vblank->linedur_ns);
>>>>> +
>>>>> + return 0;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +error:
>>>>> + vblank->linedur_ns  = 0;
>>>>> + vblank->framedur_ns = 0;
>>>>> + drm_mode_copy(&vblank->hwmode, mode);
>>>>> + return -EINVAL;
>>>>> }
>>>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_calc_timestamping_constants);
>>>>>
>>>>> @@ -2221,6 +2239,7 @@ int drm_crtc_vblank_start_timer(struct drm_crtc
>>>>> *crtc)
>>>>> struct drm_vblank_crtc *vblank = drm_crtc_vblank_crtc(crtc);
>>>>> struct drm_vblank_crtc_timer *vtimer = &vblank->vblank_timer;
>>>>> unsigned long flags;
>>>>> + int ret;
>>>>>
>>>>> if (!vtimer->crtc) {
>>>>> /*
>>>>> @@ -2239,7 +2258,9 @@ int drm_crtc_vblank_start_timer(struct drm_crtc
>>>>> *crtc)
>>>>> hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&vtimer->timer);
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> - drm_calc_timestamping_constants(crtc, &crtc->mode);
>>>>> + ret = drm_calc_timestamping_constants(crtc, &crtc->mode);
>>>>> + if (ret)
>>>>> + return ret;
>>>>>
>>>>> spin_lock_irqsave(&vtimer->interval_lock, flags);
>>>>> vtimer->interval = ns_to_ktime(vblank->framedur_ns);
>>>>> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_vblank.h b/include/drm/drm_vblank.h
>>>>> index 2fcef9c0f..d99772dfa 100644
>>>>> --- a/include/drm/drm_vblank.h
>>>>> +++ b/include/drm/drm_vblank.h
>>>>> @@ -311,8 +311,8 @@ void drm_crtc_vblank_on(struct drm_crtc *crtc);
>>>>> u64 drm_crtc_accurate_vblank_count(struct drm_crtc *crtc);
>>>>> void drm_crtc_vblank_restore(struct drm_crtc *crtc);
>>>>>
>>>>> -void drm_calc_timestamping_constants(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>>>>> -     const struct drm_display_mode *mode);
>>>>> +int drm_calc_timestamping_constants(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>>>>> +    const struct drm_display_mode *mode);
>>>>> wait_queue_head_t *drm_crtc_vblank_waitqueue(struct drm_crtc *crtc);
>>>>> void drm_crtc_set_max_vblank_count(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>>>>>     u32 max_vblank_count);
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> 2.54.0
>>>>>
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