On 2023-09-27 01:23, Christian König wrote:
> Am 26.09.23 um 15:09 schrieb Harry Wentland:
>>
>> On 2023-09-26 01:56, Cong Liu wrote:
>>> This patch fixes a null pointer dereference in the error message that is
>>> printed when the Display Core (DC) fails to initialize. The original
>>> message includes the DC version number, which is undefined if the DC is
>>> not initialized.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 9788d087caff ("drm/amd/display: improve the message printed when loading DC")
>>> Signed-off-by: Cong Liu <liucong2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 3 +--
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>>> index 8e98dda1e084..bf52a909f558 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>>> @@ -1703,8 +1703,7 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_init(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
>>> DRM_INFO("Display Core v%s initialized on %s\n", DC_VER,
>>> dce_version_to_string(adev->dm.dc->ctx->dce_version));
>>> } else {
>>> - DRM_INFO("Display Core v%s failed to initialize on %s\n", DC_VER,
>>> - dce_version_to_string(adev->dm.dc->ctx->dce_version));
>>> + DRM_INFO("Display Core failed to initialize with v%s!\n", DC_VER);
>> There is value in printing the version number. Let's not remove it.
>>
>> Instead you can probably fix it by doing a NULL check on adev->dm.dc->ctx.
>
> But as far as I understand it adev->dm.dc->ctx will always be NULL in this case.
>
Thanks, Christian. We're in the else of the NULL check for
adev-dm.dc, so obviously we can't get the version. Silly me.
Your patch is
Reviewed-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@xxxxxxx>
Harry
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
>>
>> Harry
>>
>>> goto error;
>>> }
>>>
>
