This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/msm: uninitialized variable in msm_gem_import() to the 4.4-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: drm-msm-uninitialized-variable-in-msm_gem_import.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d6cf2861d2d7364f0a4872e08364d91864fb1a19 Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 13 11:13:15 2021 +0300 drm/msm: uninitialized variable in msm_gem_import() [ Upstream commit 2203bd0e5c12ffc53ffdd4fbd7b12d6ba27e0424 ] The msm_gem_new_impl() function cleans up after itself so there is no need to call drm_gem_object_put(). Conceptually, it does not make sense to call a kref_put() function until after the reference counting has been initialized which happens immediately after this call in the drm_gem_(private_)object_init() functions. In the msm_gem_import() function the "obj" pointer is uninitialized, so it will lead to a crash. Fixes: 05b849111c07 ("drm/msm: prime support") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211013081315.GG6010@kili Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c index 245070950e875..3fe5a49a9feeb 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c @@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ struct drm_gem_object *msm_gem_new(struct drm_device *dev, ret = msm_gem_new_impl(dev, size, flags, &obj); if (ret) - goto fail; + return ERR_PTR(ret); if (use_pages(obj)) { ret = drm_gem_object_init(dev, obj, size); @@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ struct drm_gem_object *msm_gem_import(struct drm_device *dev, ret = msm_gem_new_impl(dev, size, MSM_BO_WC, &obj); if (ret) - goto fail; + return ERR_PTR(ret); drm_gem_private_object_init(dev, obj, size);