FAILED: patch "[PATCH] drm/i915/gem: Avoid iterating an empty list" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 757a9395f33c51c4e6eff2c7c0fbd50226a58224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 14:27:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915/gem: Avoid iterating an empty list

Our __sgt_iter assumes that the scattergather list has at least one element. But during construction we may fail in allocating the first page, and so mark the first element as the terminator. This is unexpected!

[22555.524752] RIP: 0010:shmem_get_pages+0x506/0x710 [i915]
[22555.524759] Code: 49 8b 2c 24 31 c0 66 89 44 24 40 48 85 ed 0f 84 62 01 00 00 4c 8b 75 00 8b 5d 08 44 8b 7d 0c 48 8b 0d 7e 34 07 e2 49 83 e6 fc <49> 8b 16 41 01 df 48 89 cf 48 89 d0 48 c1 e8 2d 48 85 c9 0f 84 c8
[22555.524765] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000053f9d0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[22555.524770] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff8881ffffa000
[22555.524774] RDX: fffffffffffffff4 RSI: ffffffffffffffff RDI: ffffffff821efe00
[22555.524778] RBP: ffff8881b099ab00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000fffffff4
[22555.524782] R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 00000000ffec0a02 R12: ffff8881cd3c8d60
[22555.524786] R13: 00000000fffffff4 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[22555.524790] FS:  00007f4fbeb9b9c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f8580000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[22555.524795] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[22555.524799] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001ec7f0004 CR4: 00000000001606e0
[22555.524803] Call Trace:
[22555.524919]  __i915_gem_object_get_pages+0x4f/0x60 [i915]

index 5d5d7eef3f43..7aff3514d97a 100644
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ static int shmem_get_pages(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
 	unsigned long last_pfn = 0;	/* suppress gcc warning */
 	unsigned int max_segment = i915_sg_segment_size();
 	unsigned int sg_page_sizes;
-	struct pagevec pvec;
 	gfp_t noreclaim;
 	int ret;
 

@@ -192,13 +191,17 @@ static int shmem_get_pages(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
 	sg_mark_end(sg);
 err_pages:
 	mapping_clear_unevictable(mapping);
-	pagevec_init(&pvec);
-	for_each_sgt_page(page, sgt_iter, st) {
-		if (!pagevec_add(&pvec, page))
+	if (sg != st->sgl) {
+		struct pagevec pvec;
+
+		pagevec_init(&pvec);
+		for_each_sgt_page(page, sgt_iter, st) {
+			if (!pagevec_add(&pvec, page))
+				check_release_pagevec(&pvec);
+		}
+		if (pagevec_count(&pvec))
 			check_release_pagevec(&pvec);
 	}
-	if (pagevec_count(&pvec))
-		check_release_pagevec(&pvec);
 	sg_free_table(st);
 	kfree(st);