This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/mediatek: Fix a null pointer crash in mtk_drm_crtc_finish_page_flip to the 4.19-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-mediatek-fix-a-null-pointer-crash-in-mtk_drm_crt.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a3133bb16f8dd5d00c80266169b753f7af37e297 Author: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Feb 23 13:23:29 2024 -0800 drm/mediatek: Fix a null pointer crash in mtk_drm_crtc_finish_page_flip [ Upstream commit c958e86e9cc1b48cac004a6e245154dfba8e163b ] It's possible that mtk_crtc->event is NULL in mtk_drm_crtc_finish_page_flip(). pending_needs_vblank value is set by mtk_crtc->event, but in mtk_drm_crtc_atomic_flush(), it's is not guarded by the same lock in mtk_drm_finish_page_flip(), thus a race condition happens. Consider the following case: CPU1 CPU2 step 1: mtk_drm_crtc_atomic_begin() mtk_crtc->event is not null, step 1: mtk_drm_crtc_atomic_flush: mtk_drm_crtc_update_config( !!mtk_crtc->event) step 2: mtk_crtc_ddp_irq -> mtk_drm_finish_page_flip: lock mtk_crtc->event set to null, pending_needs_vblank set to false unlock pending_needs_vblank set to true, step 2: mtk_crtc_ddp_irq -> mtk_drm_finish_page_flip called again, pending_needs_vblank is still true //null pointer Instead of guarding the entire mtk_drm_crtc_atomic_flush(), it's more efficient to just check if mtk_crtc->event is null before use. Fixes: 119f5173628a ("drm/mediatek: Add DRM Driver for Mediatek SoC MT8173.") Signed-off-by: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: CK Hu <ck.hu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/patch/20240223212404.3709690-1-hsinyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Chun-Kuang Hu <chunkuang.hu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_crtc.c index eac9caf322f90..fb7262ed9b699 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_crtc.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_crtc.c @@ -79,11 +79,13 @@ static void mtk_drm_crtc_finish_page_flip(struct mtk_drm_crtc *mtk_crtc) struct drm_crtc *crtc = &mtk_crtc->base; unsigned long flags; - spin_lock_irqsave(&crtc->dev->event_lock, flags); - drm_crtc_send_vblank_event(crtc, mtk_crtc->event); - drm_crtc_vblank_put(crtc); - mtk_crtc->event = NULL; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&crtc->dev->event_lock, flags); + if (mtk_crtc->event) { + spin_lock_irqsave(&crtc->dev->event_lock, flags); + drm_crtc_send_vblank_event(crtc, mtk_crtc->event); + drm_crtc_vblank_put(crtc); + mtk_crtc->event = NULL; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&crtc->dev->event_lock, flags); + } } static void mtk_drm_finish_page_flip(struct mtk_drm_crtc *mtk_crtc)