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 5.4-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-dsi-add-missing-check-for-alloc_ordered_work.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f5ffef9cb4174f93018b5d48f87e534d789b543b 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 743142e15b4c1..c59764f156f94 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi_host.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi_host.c @@ -1877,6 +1877,9 @@ 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);