[PATCH 08/13] drm/sun4i: crtc: Propagate layer initialization error

Jernej Skrabec jernej.skrabec at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 09:10:46 PDT 2026


sun4i_crtc_init() returns plain NULL when layer initialization fails,
while all its other error paths return an error pointer. The only
caller, sun4i_tcon_bind(), checks the result with IS_ERR() and happily
continues with tcon->crtc set to NULL. sun4i_rgb_init() and
sun4i_lvds_init() then dereference it in drm_crtc_mask(), which
oopses.

Return the error pointer instead.

Fixes: dcd215801b02 ("drm/sun4i: Drop primary layer pointer from sun4i_drv")
Signed-off-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_crtc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_crtc.c
index c2f7f69baf75..3fa1f4fda0f0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_crtc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_crtc.c
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ struct sun4i_crtc *sun4i_crtc_init(struct drm_device *drm,
 	planes = sunxi_engine_layers_init(drm, engine);
 	if (IS_ERR(planes)) {
 		dev_err(drm->dev, "Couldn't create the planes\n");
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_CAST(planes);
 	}
 
 	/* find primary and cursor planes for drm_crtc_init_with_planes */
-- 
2.43.0




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