[PATCH] drm/amdkfd: NULL dereference involving create_process()

Deucher, Alexander Alexander.Deucher at amd.com
Wed Jun 14 16:41:16 UTC 2017


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter at oracle.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 6:59 AM
> To: Oded Gabbay; Alexey Skidanov
> Cc: Deucher, Alexander; Koenig, Christian; David Airlie; dri-
> devel at lists.freedesktop.org; amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org; kernel-
> janitors at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH] drm/amdkfd: NULL dereference involving create_process()
> 
> We accidentally return ERR_PTR(0) which is NULL.  The caller is not
> expecting that and it leads to an Oops.
> 
> Fixes: dd59239a9862 ("amdkfd: init aperture once per process")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

Include Felix.

Alex

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
> index 84d1ffd1eef9..1190d06884ed 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
> @@ -318,7 +318,8 @@ static struct kfd_process *create_process(const struct
> task_struct *thread)
> 
>  	/* init process apertures*/
>  	process->is_32bit_user_mode = in_compat_syscall();
> -	if (kfd_init_apertures(process) != 0)
> +	err = kfd_init_apertures(process);
> +	if (err != 0)
>  		goto err_init_apretures;
> 
>  	return process;


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