linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] drm/atomic: avoid null pointer dereference on pointer crtc

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Date:   Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:28:24 +0000
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Simon Ser <contact@...rsion.fr>
Cc:     Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] drm/atomic: avoid null pointer dereference on
 pointer crtc

On 16/11/2020 11:08, Simon Ser wrote:
> On Monday, November 16, 2020 12:03 PM, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Colin Ian King colin.king@...onical.com
>>
>> Since moving to the new debug helper functions we now have a debug message
>> that dereferences crtc to print a kernel debug message when crtc is null
>> and so this debug message will now cause a null pointer dereference. Since
>> this is a debug message it probably is just simplest to fix this by just
>> removing the debug message altogether.
> 
> NACK. This removes the log altogether instead of fixing it.
> 
> A fix has already been pushed to drm-misc-next: 0003b687ee6d ("drm: fix
> oops in drm_atomic_set_crtc_for_connector").
> 
Good to see this has already been fixed. Thanks.

Colin