RE: linux-4.16-rc5/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dce110/dce110_hw_sequencer.c:1723]: (warning) Possible null pointer dereference: pipe_ctx

From: Li, Roman
Date: Mon Mar 12 2018 - 19:06:31 EST


There is a check just before for-loop that should ensure pipe_ctx is not null:

/* Only supports single display */
if (context->stream_count != 1)
return false;

To remove the subject warning - we can rather add an assert:
assert(pipe_ctx);

Thanks,
Roman

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From: Grodzovsky, Andrey
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 6:23 PM
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Subject: Re: linux-4.16-rc5/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dce110/dce110_hw_sequencer.c:1723]: (warning) Possible null pointer dereference: pipe_ctx



On 03/12/2018 06:22 AM, David Binderman wrote:
> hello there,
>
> Source code is
>
>
> ÂÂÂ for (i = 0; i < dc->res_pool->pipe_count; i++) {
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ if (res_ctx->pipe_ctx[i].stream) {
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ pipe_ctx = &res_ctx->pipe_ctx[i];
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ *pipe_idx = i;
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ break;
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ }
> ÂÂÂ }

Indeed something like

if (!pipe_ctx)
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ return false;

seems the right thing here.

Harry, Roman , your opinion ?

Andrey

>
> ÂÂÂ /* Only supports eDP */
> ÂÂÂ if (pipe_ctx->stream->sink->link->connector_signal !=
> SIGNAL_TYPE_EDP)
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ return false;
>
> Suggest add some code to deal with the case that the for loop doesn't
> find what it is looking for and so pipe_ctx is NULL.
>
> Regards
>
> David Binderman
>
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