This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/msm: Fix null ptr access msm_ioctl_gem_submit() to the 5.15-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-fix-null-ptr-access-msm_ioctl_gem_submit.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5a5296f489f07b09ec402decb275e0ef40397551 Author: Akhil P Oommen <akhilpo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 18 15:50:30 2021 +0530 drm/msm: Fix null ptr access msm_ioctl_gem_submit() [ Upstream commit 26d776fd0f79f093a5d0ce1a4c7c7a992bc3264c ] Fix the below null pointer dereference in msm_ioctl_gem_submit(): 26545.260705: Call trace: 26545.263223: kref_put+0x1c/0x60 26545.266452: msm_ioctl_gem_submit+0x254/0x744 26545.270937: drm_ioctl_kernel+0xa8/0x124 26545.274976: drm_ioctl+0x21c/0x33c 26545.278478: drm_compat_ioctl+0xdc/0xf0 26545.282428: __arm64_compat_sys_ioctl+0xc8/0x100 26545.287169: el0_svc_common+0xf8/0x250 26545.291025: do_el0_svc_compat+0x28/0x54 26545.295066: el0_svc_compat+0x10/0x1c 26545.298838: el0_sync_compat_handler+0xa8/0xcc 26545.303403: el0_sync_compat+0x188/0x1c0 26545.307445: Code: d503201f d503201f 52800028 4b0803e8 (b8680008) 26545.318799: Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception Signed-off-by: Akhil P Oommen <akhilpo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211118154903.2.I3ae019673a0cc45d83a193a7858748dd03dbb820@changeid Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c index a38f23be497d8..d9aef97eb93ad 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c @@ -780,6 +780,7 @@ int msm_ioctl_gem_submit(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, args->nr_cmds); if (IS_ERR(submit)) { ret = PTR_ERR(submit); + submit = NULL; goto out_unlock; }