Something I discovered while writing rvkms since some versions of the driver didn't have a filled out atomic_update function - we mention that this callback is "optional", but we don't actually check whether it's NULL or not before calling it. As a result, we'll segfault if it's not filled in. rvkms rvkms.0: [drm:drm_atomic_helper_commit_modeset_disables] modeset on [ENCODER:36:Virtual-36] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20240813-1.fc40 08/13/2024 RIP: 0010:0x0 So, let's fix that. Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: c2fcd274bce5 ("drm: Add atomic/plane helpers") Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.19+ --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c index 43cdf39019a44..b3c507040c6d6 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c @@ -2797,7 +2797,8 @@ void drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes(struct drm_device *dev, funcs->atomic_disable(plane, old_state); } else if (new_plane_state->crtc || disabling) { - funcs->atomic_update(plane, old_state); + if (funcs->atomic_update) + funcs->atomic_update(plane, old_state); if (!disabling && funcs->atomic_enable) { if (drm_atomic_plane_enabling(old_plane_state, new_plane_state)) @@ -2889,7 +2890,8 @@ drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes_on_crtc(struct drm_crtc_state *old_crtc_state) if (disabling && plane_funcs->atomic_disable) { plane_funcs->atomic_disable(plane, old_state); } else if (new_plane_state->crtc || disabling) { - plane_funcs->atomic_update(plane, old_state); + if (plane_funcs->atomic_update) + plane_funcs->atomic_update(plane, old_state); if (!disabling && plane_funcs->atomic_enable) { if (drm_atomic_plane_enabling(old_plane_state, new_plane_state)) base-commit: 22512c3ee0f47faab5def71c4453638923c62522 -- 2.46.1