This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
media: drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-h264 : add detection of null pointers
to the 6.1-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-drivers-media-v4l2-core-v4l2-h264-add-detectio.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 4ddc4f7dbb95a0e451fdcfb0d27753ac441cfa26
Author: Dong Chuanjian <chuanjian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Dec 27 03:36:25 2022 +0100
media: drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-h264 : add detection of null pointers
[ Upstream commit be3ae7cf4326e95bb1d5413b63baabc26f4a1324 ]
When the pointer variable is judged to be null, null is returned
directly.
[hverkuil: fix two checkpatch warnings]
Signed-off-by: Dong Chuanjian <chuanjian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: d3f756ad629b ("media: v4l2: Trace calculated p/b0/b1 initial reflist")
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-h264.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-h264.c
index 72bd64f651981..c00197d095e75 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-h264.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-h264.c
@@ -305,6 +305,8 @@ static const char *format_ref_list_p(const struct v4l2_h264_reflist_builder *bui
int n = 0, i;
*out_str = kmalloc(tmp_str_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!(*out_str))
+ return NULL;
n += snprintf(*out_str + n, tmp_str_size - n, "|");
@@ -343,6 +345,8 @@ static const char *format_ref_list_b(const struct v4l2_h264_reflist_builder *bui
int n = 0, i;
*out_str = kmalloc(tmp_str_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!(*out_str))
+ return NULL;
n += snprintf(*out_str + n, tmp_str_size - n, "|");
