This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/vmwgfx: avoid null_ptr_deref in vmw_framebuffer_surface_create_handle to the 6.11-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-vmwgfx-avoid-null_ptr_deref-in-vmw_framebuffer_s.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 432eb812ea621b9c4f0b2f8d57936dfc1cabc02d Author: Chen Ridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 29 08:34:29 2024 +0000 drm/vmwgfx: avoid null_ptr_deref in vmw_framebuffer_surface_create_handle [ Upstream commit 93d1f41a82de382845af460bf03bcb17dcbf08c5 ] The 'vmw_user_object_buffer' function may return NULL with incorrect inputs. To avoid possible null pointer dereference, add a check whether the 'bo' is NULL in the vmw_framebuffer_surface_create_handle. Fixes: d6667f0ddf46 ("drm/vmwgfx: Fix handling of dumb buffers") Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20241029083429.1185479-1-chenridong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c index 63b8d7591253c..10d596cb4b402 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c @@ -1265,6 +1265,8 @@ static int vmw_framebuffer_surface_create_handle(struct drm_framebuffer *fb, struct vmw_framebuffer_surface *vfbs = vmw_framebuffer_to_vfbs(fb); struct vmw_bo *bo = vmw_user_object_buffer(&vfbs->uo); + if (WARN_ON(!bo)) + return -EINVAL; return drm_gem_handle_create(file_priv, &bo->tbo.base, handle); }