Hm, I suppose it's not -impossible- for this to return NULL, but if it does return NULL that absolutely means something broke well before this point in the code. More comments below: On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 09:09 -0700, Chenyuan Mi wrote: > The drm_atomic_get_mst_payload_state() function may > return NULL, which may cause null pointer deference, > and most other callsites of drm_atomic_get_mst_payload_state() > do Null check. Add Null check for return value of > drm_atomic_get_mst_payload_state(). > > Found by our static analysis tool. > > Signed-off-by: Chenyuan Mi <cymi20@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c > index 38dab76ae69e..27f4bcf409ea 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c > @@ -4434,6 +4434,8 @@ void drm_dp_mst_atomic_wait_for_dependencies(struct drm_atomic_state *state) > > new_payload = drm_atomic_get_mst_payload_state(new_mst_state, > old_payload->port); > + if (!new_payload) > + continue; Could you change this check to: if (drm_WARN_ON(state->dev, !new_payload)) > new_payload->vc_start_slot = old_payload->vc_start_slot; > } > } -- Cheers, Lyude Paul (she/her) Software Engineer at Red Hat