[PATCH] drm: panel-lvds: Potential Oops in probe error handling

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Wed Sep 4 11:50:57 UTC 2019


Hi Dan,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 01:03:29PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The "lvds->backlight" pointer could be NULl if of_parse_phandle()
> returns NULL.
> 
> Fixes: 7c9dff5bd643 ("drm: panels: Add LVDS panel driver")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-lvds.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-lvds.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-lvds.c
> index ad47cc95459e..3b4eb959e994 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-lvds.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-lvds.c
> @@ -272,7 +272,8 @@ static int panel_lvds_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return 0;
>  
>  error:
> -	put_device(&lvds->backlight->dev);
> +	if (lvds->backlight)
> +		put_device(&lvds->backlight->dev);

How about simply

-	put_device(&lvds->backlight->dev);
+	backlight_put(lvds->backlight);

?

>  	return ret;
>  }
>  

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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