linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 020/228] drm/nouveau/fbcon: fix module unload when fbcon init has failed for some reason

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Message-Id: <20200820091608.542688736@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:19:55 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 020/228] drm/nouveau/fbcon: fix module unload when fbcon init has failed for some reason

From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>

[ Upstream commit 498595abf5bd51f0ae074cec565d888778ea558f ]

Stale pointer was tripping up the unload path.

Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c
index 2b12d82aac150..ee8f744dc4881 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c
@@ -543,6 +543,7 @@ fini:
 	drm_fb_helper_fini(&fbcon->helper);
 free:
 	kfree(fbcon);
+	drm->fbcon = NULL;
 	return ret;
 }
 
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