As kzalloc may fail and return NULL pointer, it should be better to check the return value in order to avoid the NULL pointer dereference. Fixes: 1cff7440a86e ("drm/msm: Convert to using __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset() for reset.") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_crtc.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_crtc.c index e86421c69bd1..86036dd4e1e8 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_crtc.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_crtc.c @@ -1139,7 +1139,10 @@ static void mdp5_crtc_reset(struct drm_crtc *crtc) if (crtc->state) mdp5_crtc_destroy_state(crtc, crtc->state); - __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(crtc, &mdp5_cstate->base); + if (mdp5_cstate) + __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(crtc, &mdp5_cstate->base); + else + __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(crtc, NULL); } static const struct drm_crtc_funcs mdp5_crtc_no_lm_cursor_funcs = { -- 2.25.1