[PATCH] drivers: video: efi-gop: fix null reference pointer on priv->fb.mode=NULL.

[Ahmad Fatoum]

Hi,

On 8/28/25 6:14 AM, chalianis1 at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Chali Anis <chalianis1 at gmail.com>
> 
> fix a null reference pointer on mode variable, that was never initialized,
> the mode will be set by the framebuffer subsyetem after initialisation so
> it's not necessary to change the resolution here.
> 
> Fixes: 6518b21c6c66 ("video: add EFI Graphics Output Protocol support")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chali Anis <chalianis1 at gmail.com>

Uhh, so this has always been a null pointer dereference so far, but NULL
page read didn't trap for us on x86..?

Anyways:

Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>

Thanks,
Ahmad

> ---
>  drivers/video/efi_gop.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/efi_gop.c b/drivers/video/efi_gop.c
> index f4f58d9271f5..cef8a6816cac 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/efi_gop.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/efi_gop.c
> @@ -169,8 +169,6 @@ static int efi_gop_query(struct efi_gop_priv *priv)
>  
>  	priv->fb.screen_base = mode->frame_buffer_base;
>  	priv->mode = mode->mode;
> -	priv->fb.xres = priv->fb.mode->xres;
> -	priv->fb.yres = priv->fb.mode->yres;
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }

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