[PATCH] drm/msm/dpu: check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in dpu_writeback_init()

Abhinav Kumar quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com
Tue Dec 13 21:41:25 UTC 2022



On 11/18/2022 9:55 PM, Hui Tang wrote:
> Because of the possilble failure of devm_kzalloc(), dpu_wb_conn might
> be NULL and will cause null pointer derefrence later.
derefrence --> dereference
> 
> Therefore, it might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM.
> 
> Fixes: 77b001acdcfe ("drm/msm/dpu: add the writeback connector layer")
> Signed-off-by: Hui Tang <tanghui20 at huawei.com>

With that nit fixed,

Reviewed-by: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_writeback.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_writeback.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_writeback.c
> index 088ec990a2f2..2a5a68366582 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_writeback.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_writeback.c
> @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ int dpu_writeback_init(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_encoder *enc,
>   	int rc = 0;
>   
>   	dpu_wb_conn = devm_kzalloc(dev->dev, sizeof(*dpu_wb_conn), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!dpu_wb_conn)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>   
>   	drm_connector_helper_add(&dpu_wb_conn->base.base, &dpu_wb_conn_helper_funcs);
>   


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