This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/amd/display: Add a dc_state NULL check in dc_state_release
to the 6.8-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-amd-display-add-a-dc_state-null-check-in-dc_stat.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit c40ba53500a7d0250b2baf391f6c22696644cb34
Author: Allen Pan <allen.pan@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 23 18:20:16 2024 -0500
drm/amd/display: Add a dc_state NULL check in dc_state_release
[ Upstream commit 334b56cea5d9df5989be6cf1a5898114fa70ad98 ]
[How]
Check wheather state is NULL before releasing it.
Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Charlene Liu <charlene.liu@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Allen Pan <allen.pan@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Daniel Wheeler <daniel.wheeler@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_state.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_state.c
index 180ac47868c22..5cc7f8da209c5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_state.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_state.c
@@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ static void dc_state_free(struct kref *kref)
void dc_state_release(struct dc_state *state)
{
- kref_put(&state->refcount, dc_state_free);
+ if (state != NULL)
+ kref_put(&state->refcount, dc_state_free);
}
/*
* dc_state_add_stream() - Add a new dc_stream_state to a dc_state.
