[PATCH 1/1] virtio-gpu: avoid possible NULL pointer dereference

Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Sun Aug 21 21:06:06 UTC 2016


If output is NULL it is not permissable to dereference it.
So we should leave the respective function in this case.

The inconsistency was indicated by cppcheck.
No actual NULL pointer dereference was observed.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_plane.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_plane.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_plane.c
index 925ca25..ba28c0f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_plane.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_plane.c
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ static void virtio_gpu_primary_plane_update(struct drm_plane *plane,
 		output = drm_crtc_to_virtio_gpu_output(plane->state->crtc);
 	if (old_state->crtc)
 		output = drm_crtc_to_virtio_gpu_output(old_state->crtc);
-	WARN_ON(!output);
+	if (WARN_ON(!output))
+		return;
 
 	if (plane->state->fb) {
 		vgfb = to_virtio_gpu_framebuffer(plane->state->fb);
@@ -129,7 +130,8 @@ static void virtio_gpu_cursor_plane_update(struct drm_plane *plane,
 		output = drm_crtc_to_virtio_gpu_output(plane->state->crtc);
 	if (old_state->crtc)
 		output = drm_crtc_to_virtio_gpu_output(old_state->crtc);
-	WARN_ON(!output);
+	if (WARN_ON(!output))
+		return;
 
 	if (plane->state->fb) {
 		vgfb = to_virtio_gpu_framebuffer(plane->state->fb);
-- 
2.1.4



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