The variable crtc->state->event is often protected by the lock crtc->dev->event_lock when is accessed. However, it is accessed as a condition of an if statement in exynos_drm_crtc_atomic_disable() without holding the lock: if (crtc->state->event && !crtc->state->active) However, if crtc->state->event is changed to NULL by another thread right after the conditions of the if statement is checked to be true, a null-pointer dereference can occur in drm_crtc_send_vblank_event(): e->pipe = pipe; To fix this possible null-pointer dereference caused by data race, the spin lock coverage is extended to protect the if statement as well as the function call to drm_crtc_send_vblank_event(). Reported-by: BassCheck <bass@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tuo Li <islituo@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_crtc.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_crtc.c index 4153f302de7c..d19e796c2061 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_crtc.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_crtc.c @@ -39,13 +39,12 @@ static void exynos_drm_crtc_atomic_disable(struct drm_crtc *crtc, if (exynos_crtc->ops->atomic_disable) exynos_crtc->ops->atomic_disable(exynos_crtc); + spin_lock_irq(&crtc->dev->event_lock); if (crtc->state->event && !crtc->state->active) { - spin_lock_irq(&crtc->dev->event_lock); drm_crtc_send_vblank_event(crtc, crtc->state->event); - spin_unlock_irq(&crtc->dev->event_lock); - crtc->state->event = NULL; } + spin_unlock_irq(&crtc->dev->event_lock); } static int exynos_crtc_atomic_check(struct drm_crtc *crtc, -- 2.34.1