[PATCH v2] drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path

Chun-Kuang Hu chunkuang.hu at kernel.org
Fri Jan 27 07:12:04 PST 2023


Hi, Nicolas:

Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado at collabora.com> 於 2022年11月22日 週二 下午10:39寫道:
>
> mtk_drm_bind() can fail, in which case drm_dev_put() is called,
> destroying the drm_device object. However a pointer to it was still
> being held in the private object, and that pointer would be passed along
> to DRM in mtk_drm_sys_prepare() if a suspend were triggered at that
> point, resulting in a panic. Clean the pointer when destroying the
> object in the error path to prevent this from happening.

Applied to mediatek-drm-next [1], thanks.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chunkuang.hu/linux.git/log/?h=mediatek-drm-next

Regards,
Chun-Kuang.

>
> Fixes: 119f5173628a ("drm/mediatek: Add DRM Driver for Mediatek SoC MT8173.")
> Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado at collabora.com>
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Added Fixes tag
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c
> index 39a42dc8fb85..a21ff1b3258c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c
> @@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ static int mtk_drm_bind(struct device *dev)
>  err_deinit:
>         mtk_drm_kms_deinit(drm);
>  err_free:
> +       private->drm = NULL;
>         drm_dev_put(drm);
>         return ret;
>  }
> --
> 2.38.1
>



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