This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/msm/dsi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue
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-dsi-add-missing-check-for-alloc_ordered_work.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 75837a8045b75102b2a32c0136d31a1376b3487f
Author: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jan 10 10:16:51 2023 +0800
drm/msm/dsi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue
[ Upstream commit 115906ca7b535afb1fe7b5406c566ccd3873f82b ]
Add check for the return value of alloc_ordered_workqueue as it may return
NULL pointer and cause NULL pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517646/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230110021651.12770-1-jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi_host.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi_host.c
index eb60ce125a1fc..d3ec4d67a9a35 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi_host.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi_host.c
@@ -1929,6 +1929,9 @@ int msm_dsi_host_init(struct msm_dsi *msm_dsi)
/* setup workqueue */
msm_host->workqueue = alloc_ordered_workqueue("dsi_drm_work", 0);
+ if (!msm_host->workqueue)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
INIT_WORK(&msm_host->err_work, dsi_err_worker);
INIT_WORK(&msm_host->hpd_work, dsi_hpd_worker);
