linux-kernel - [PATCH v3] drm: mali-dp: potential dereference of null pointer

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Message-Id: <20211214125341.47032-1-jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>
Date:   Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:53:41 +0800
From:   Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
To:     liviu.dudau@....com, brian.starkey@....com, airlied@...ux.ie,
        daniel@...ll.ch
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
Subject: [PATCH v3] drm: mali-dp: potential dereference of null pointer

The return value of kzalloc() needs to be checked.
To avoid use of null pointer '&state->base' in case of the
failure of alloc.

Fixes: 99665d072183 ("drm: mali-dp: add malidp_crtc_state struct")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
Reviewed-by: Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@....com>
---
Changelog:

v2 -> v3

*Change 1. Change reported to reviewed.
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_crtc.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_crtc.c
index 494075ddbef6..b5928b52e279 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_crtc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_crtc.c
@@ -487,7 +487,10 @@ static void malidp_crtc_reset(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
 	if (crtc->state)
 		malidp_crtc_destroy_state(crtc, crtc->state);
 
-	__drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(crtc, &state->base);
+	if (state)
+		__drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(crtc, &state->base);
+	else
+		__drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(crtc, NULL);
 }
 
 static int malidp_crtc_enable_vblank(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
-- 
2.25.1