In the unlikely event that pointer perfmon is null the WARN_ON return path occurs after the pointer has already been deferenced. Fix this by only dereferencing perfmon after it has been null checked. Fixes: 26a4dc29b74a ("drm/v3d: Expose performance counters to userspace") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_perfmon.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_perfmon.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_perfmon.c index 0288ef063513..f6a88abccc7d 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_perfmon.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_perfmon.c @@ -25,11 +25,12 @@ void v3d_perfmon_start(struct v3d_dev *v3d, struct v3d_perfmon *perfmon) { unsigned int i; u32 mask; - u8 ncounters = perfmon->ncounters; + u8 ncounters; if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!perfmon || v3d->active_perfmon)) return; + ncounters = perfmon->ncounters; mask = GENMASK(ncounters - 1, 0); for (i = 0; i < ncounters; i++) { -- 2.35.1