This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/amd/display: Add null check for head_pipe in dcn32_acquire_idle_pipe_for_head_pipe_in_layer to the 6.10-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-null-check-for-head_pipe-in-dcn3.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 44d9709ea1656c2885dfaa4f08a73876aa1f1604 Author: Srinivasan Shanmugam <srinivasan.shanmugam@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun Jul 21 19:30:16 2024 +0530 drm/amd/display: Add null check for head_pipe in dcn32_acquire_idle_pipe_for_head_pipe_in_layer [ Upstream commit ac2140449184a26eac99585b7f69814bd3ba8f2d ] This commit addresses a potential null pointer dereference issue in the `dcn32_acquire_idle_pipe_for_head_pipe_in_layer` function. The issue could occur when `head_pipe` is null. The fix adds a check to ensure `head_pipe` is not null before asserting it. If `head_pipe` is null, the function returns NULL to prevent a potential null pointer dereference. Reported by smatch: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/resource/dcn32/dcn32_resource.c:2690 dcn32_acquire_idle_pipe_for_head_pipe_in_layer() error: we previously assumed 'head_pipe' could be null (see line 2681) Cc: Tom Chung <chiahsuan.chung@xxxxxxx> Cc: Rodrigo Siqueira <Rodrigo.Siqueira@xxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Li <roman.li@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alex Hung <alex.hung@xxxxxxx> Cc: Aurabindo Pillai <aurabindo.pillai@xxxxxxx> Cc: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamza.mahfooz@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Srinivasan Shanmugam <srinivasan.shanmugam@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tom Chung <chiahsuan.chung@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/resource/dcn32/dcn32_resource.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/resource/dcn32/dcn32_resource.c index d84c8e0e5c2f0..9209bcad699a8 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/resource/dcn32/dcn32_resource.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/resource/dcn32/dcn32_resource.c @@ -2664,8 +2664,10 @@ static struct pipe_ctx *dcn32_acquire_idle_pipe_for_head_pipe_in_layer( struct resource_context *old_ctx = &stream->ctx->dc->current_state->res_ctx; int head_index; - if (!head_pipe) + if (!head_pipe) { ASSERT(0); + return NULL; + } /* * Modified from dcn20_acquire_idle_pipe_for_layer