[PATCH v2] drm/ast: potential dereference of null pointer

From: Jiasheng Jiang
Date: Mon Dec 13 2021 - 20:41:52 EST


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

Fixes: f0adbc382b8b ("drm/ast: Allocate initial CRTC state of the correct size")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changelog:

v1 -> v2

*Change 1. Add the else statement that calling
__drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset() with a state of NULL.
---
drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c
index 36d9575aa27b..65099f0359f9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c
@@ -1120,7 +1120,10 @@ static void ast_crtc_reset(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
if (crtc->state)
crtc->funcs->atomic_destroy_state(crtc, crtc->state);

- __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(crtc, &ast_state->base);
+ if (ast_state)
+ __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(crtc, &ast_state->base);
+ else
+ __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(crtc, NULL);
}

static struct drm_crtc_state *
--
2.25.1