drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600_blit.c: fix possible NULL pointer derefernce

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 14:00:27 PDT 2010


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Alexander Y. Fomichev
<git.user at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Alexander Y. Fomichev
>> <git.user at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This patch fix possible NULL pointer dereference when
>>> r600_prepare_blit_copy tries to fill dev_priv->blit_vb->file_priv
>>> without check of dev_priv->blit_vb. dev_priv->blit_vb should be
>>> filled by r600_nomm_get_vb but latest can fail with EAGAIN.
>>> Addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16375
>>>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600_blit.c |    2 ++
>>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600_blit.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600_blit.c
>>> index f4fb88e..0df4a2b 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600_blit.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600_blit.c
>>> @@ -541,6 +541,8 @@ r600_prepare_blit_copy(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_file *file_priv)
>>>        DRM_DEBUG("\n");
>>>
>>>        r600_nomm_get_vb(dev);
>>> +       if (!dev_priv->blit_vb)
>>> +               return;
>>
>> r600_prepare_blit_copy returns an int so something like this would be better:
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600_blit.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600_blit.c
>> @@ -539,8 +539,10 @@ r600_prepare_blit_copy(struct drm_device *dev,
>> struct drm_file *file_priv)
>>  {
>>        drm_radeon_private_t *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
>>        DRM_DEBUG("\n");
>> +       int ret = r600_nomm_get_vb(dev);
>>
>> -       r600_nomm_get_vb(dev);
>> +       if (ret)
>> +               return ret;
>>
>>        dev_priv->blit_vb->file_priv = file_priv;
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>>
>>>        dev_priv->blit_vb->file_priv = file_priv;
>>>
>>> --
>>> 1.7.1.1
>>>
>>
>
> i haven't any preferneces, the only thing is - it would be logical
> to have every check in common style, so other cases
> (r600_blit_copy, r600_blit_swap) should be fixed, nop?

Those are void functions so there's nothing to return.

Alex

>
> --
> Best regards.
>        Alexander Y. Fomichev <git.user at gmail.com>
>


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