This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/i915: Check for NULL atomic state in intel_crtc_disable_noatomic() to the 4.9-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-i915-check-for-null-atomic-state-in-intel_crtc_disable_noatomic.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6d1d427a4e24c403b4adf928d61994bdaa0ca03a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ander Conselvan de Oliveira <ander.conselvan.de.oliveira@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:28:45 +0200 Subject: drm/i915: Check for NULL atomic state in intel_crtc_disable_noatomic() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ander Conselvan de Oliveira <ander.conselvan.de.oliveira@xxxxxxxxx> commit 6d1d427a4e24c403b4adf928d61994bdaa0ca03a upstream. In intel_crtc_disable_noatomic(), bail on a failure to allocate an atomic state to avoid a NULL pointer dereference. Fixes: 4a80655827af ("drm/i915: Pass atomic state to crtc enable/disable functions") Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ander Conselvan de Oliveira <ander.conselvan.de.oliveira@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1484922525-6131-4-git-send-email-ander.conselvan.de.oliveira@xxxxxxxxx (cherry picked from commit 31bb2ef97ea9db343348f9b5ccaa9bb6f48fc655) Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c @@ -6869,6 +6869,12 @@ static void intel_crtc_disable_noatomic( } state = drm_atomic_state_alloc(crtc->dev); + if (!state) { + DRM_DEBUG_KMS("failed to disable [CRTC:%d:%s], out of memory", + crtc->base.id, crtc->name); + return; + } + state->acquire_ctx = crtc->dev->mode_config.acquire_ctx; /* Everything's already locked, -EDEADLK can't happen. */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ander.conselvan.de.oliveira@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/drm-i915-don-t-init-hpd-polling-for-vlv-and-chv-from-runtime_suspend.patch queue-4.9/drm-i915-check-for-null-atomic-state-in-intel_crtc_disable_noatomic.patch queue-4.9/drm-i915-don-t-leak-edid-in-intel_crt_detect_ddc.patch queue-4.9/drm-i915-fix-calculation-of-rotated-x-and-y-offsets-for-planar-formats.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html