Re: [PATCH] drm/ast: potential dereference of null pointer

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Hi,

thanks for the patch.

Am 13.12.21 um 06:39 schrieb Jiasheng Jiang:
he return value of kzalloc() needs to be checked.

'The'

To avoid use of null pointer '&ast_state->base' in case of the
failure of alloc.

Fixes: f0adbc382b8b ("drm/ast: Allocate initial CRTC state of the correct size")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c | 3 ++-
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c
index 36d9575aa27b..67f8e3f90ea2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c
@@ -1120,7 +1120,8 @@ static void ast_crtc_reset(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
  	if (crtc->state)
  		crtc->funcs->atomic_destroy_state(crtc, crtc->state);
- __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(crtc, &ast_state->base);
+	if (ast_state)
+		__drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(crtc, &ast_state->base);

If ast_state is NULL, __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset() has to be called with a state of NULL. Otherwise the reset might leave the dangling pointer in the CRTC's state field.

Best regards
Thomas

  }
static struct drm_crtc_state *


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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev

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