If mdp5_cfg_init fails because of an unknown major version, a null pointer dereference occurs. This is because the caller of init expects error pointers, but init returns NULL on error. Fix this by returning the expected values on error. Fixes: 2e362e1772b8 (drm/msm/mdp5: introduce mdp5_cfg module) Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo <jeffrey.l.hugo@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_cfg.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_cfg.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_cfg.c index ea8f7d7daf7f..52e23780fce1 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_cfg.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_cfg.c @@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ struct mdp5_cfg_handler *mdp5_cfg_init(struct mdp5_kms *mdp5_kms, if (cfg_handler) mdp5_cfg_destroy(cfg_handler); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(ret); } static struct mdp5_cfg_platform *mdp5_get_config(struct platform_device *dev) -- 2.17.1