This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: st-hva: Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences to the 5.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: media-st-hva-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereferences.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0afac2ab5907387963c08b19d291c7157322775c Author: Evgeny Novikov <novikov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 19 14:04:49 2021 +0200 media: st-hva: Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences [ Upstream commit b7fdd208687ba59ebfb09b2199596471c63b69e3 ] When ctx_id >= HVA_MAX_INSTANCES in hva_hw_its_irq_thread() it tries to access fields of ctx that is NULL at that point. The patch gets rid of these accesses. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Evgeny Novikov <novikov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/sti/hva/hva-hw.c b/drivers/media/platform/sti/hva/hva-hw.c index f59811e27f51..6eeee5017fac 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/sti/hva/hva-hw.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/sti/hva/hva-hw.c @@ -130,8 +130,7 @@ static irqreturn_t hva_hw_its_irq_thread(int irq, void *arg) ctx_id = (hva->sts_reg & 0xFF00) >> 8; if (ctx_id >= HVA_MAX_INSTANCES) { dev_err(dev, "%s %s: bad context identifier: %d\n", - ctx->name, __func__, ctx_id); - ctx->hw_err = true; + HVA_PREFIX, __func__, ctx_id); goto out; }