[PATCH] drm: Avoid NULL dereference of drm_device.dev

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Fri Dec 30 14:30:48 UTC 2016


On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 02:16:39PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> For a virtual device, drm_device.dev is NULL, so becareful not to
> dereference it unconditionally in core code such as drm_dev_register().
> 
> Fixes: 75f6dfe3e652 ("drm: Deduplicate driver initialization message")
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman at collabora.co.uk>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>

Welp, so much for assuming I don't need to CI simple core patches ... I
guess we should roll out bat CI to dri-devel asap, but for that there's
still way too much noise :(

Thanks for the quick fix, applied.
-Daniel
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> index 24d2949fd80b..6285e42b42da 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> @@ -767,7 +767,8 @@ int drm_dev_register(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
>  
>  	DRM_INFO("Initialized %s %d.%d.%d %s for %s on minor %d\n",
>  		 driver->name, driver->major, driver->minor,
> -		 driver->patchlevel, driver->date, dev_name(dev->dev),
> +		 driver->patchlevel, driver->date,
> +		 dev->dev ? dev_name(dev->dev) : "virtual device",
>  		 dev->primary->index);
>  
>  	goto out_unlock;
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch


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