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

Oded Gabbay oded.gabbay at gmail.com
Wed Jun 14 20:34:57 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> 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>
>
> 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;

Hi Dan,

Applied to amdkfd-next
Thanks!

Oded


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